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    bpf: verifier: insert zero extension according to analysis result · a4b1d3c1
    Jiong Wang authored
    After previous patches, verifier will mark a insn if it really needs zero
    extension on dst_reg.
    
    It is then for back-ends to decide how to use such information to eliminate
    unnecessary zero extension code-gen during JIT compilation.
    
    One approach is verifier insert explicit zero extension for those insns
    that need zero extension in a generic way, JIT back-ends then do not
    generate zero extension for sub-register write at default.
    
    However, only those back-ends which do not have hardware zero extension
    want this optimization. Back-ends like x86_64 and AArch64 have hardware
    zero extension support that the insertion should be disabled.
    
    This patch introduces new target hook "bpf_jit_needs_zext" which returns
    false at default, meaning verifier zero extension insertion is disabled at
    default. A back-end could override this hook to return true if it doesn't
    have hardware support and want verifier insert zero extension explicitly.
    
    Offload targets do not use this native target hook, instead, they could
    get the optimization results using bpf_prog_offload_ops.finalize.
    
    NOTE: arches could have diversified features, it is possible for one arch
    to have hardware zero extension support for some sub-register write insns
    but not for all. For example, PowerPC, SPARC have zero extended loads, but
    not for alu32. So when verifier zero extension insertion enabled, these JIT
    back-ends need to peephole insns to remove those zero extension inserted
    for insn that actually has hardware zero extension support. The peephole
    could be as simple as looking the next insn, if it is a special zero
    extension insn then it is safe to eliminate it if the current insn has
    hardware zero extension support.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiong Wang <jiong.wang@netronome.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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