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[v9,bpf-next,06/17] tools: bpf: sync uapi header bpf.h

Message ID 1558736728-7229-7-git-send-email-jiong.wang@netronome.com
State Accepted
Delegated to: BPF Maintainers
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Series bpf: eliminate zero extensions for sub-register writes | expand

Commit Message

Jiong Wang May 24, 2019, 10:25 p.m. UTC
Sync new bpf prog load flag "BPF_F_TEST_RND_HI32" to tools/.

Signed-off-by: Jiong Wang <jiong.wang@netronome.com>
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 tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 68d4470..7c6aef2 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -260,6 +260,24 @@  enum bpf_attach_type {
  */
 #define BPF_F_ANY_ALIGNMENT	(1U << 1)
 
+/* BPF_F_TEST_RND_HI32 is used in BPF_PROG_LOAD command for testing purpose.
+ * Verifier does sub-register def/use analysis and identifies instructions whose
+ * def only matters for low 32-bit, high 32-bit is never referenced later
+ * through implicit zero extension. Therefore verifier notifies JIT back-ends
+ * that it is safe to ignore clearing high 32-bit for these instructions. This
+ * saves some back-ends a lot of code-gen. However such optimization is not
+ * necessary on some arches, for example x86_64, arm64 etc, whose JIT back-ends
+ * hence hasn't used verifier's analysis result. But, we really want to have a
+ * way to be able to verify the correctness of the described optimization on
+ * x86_64 on which testsuites are frequently exercised.
+ *
+ * So, this flag is introduced. Once it is set, verifier will randomize high
+ * 32-bit for those instructions who has been identified as safe to ignore them.
+ * Then, if verifier is not doing correct analysis, such randomization will
+ * regress tests to expose bugs.
+ */
+#define BPF_F_TEST_RND_HI32	(1U << 2)
+
 /* When BPF ldimm64's insn[0].src_reg != 0 then this can have
  * two extensions:
  *