<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/arm64/net, branch v4.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>arm64: bpf: optimize LD_ABS, LD_IND</title>
<updated>2016-06-11T06:11:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zi Shen Lim</name>
<email>zlim.lnx@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-09T04:18:50+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Remove superfluous stack frame, saving us 3 instructions for every
LD_ABS or LD_IND.

Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Remove superfluous stack frame, saving us 3 instructions for every
LD_ABS or LD_IND.

Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: bpf: optimize JMP_CALL</title>
<updated>2016-06-11T06:11:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zi Shen Lim</name>
<email>zlim.lnx@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-09T04:18:49+00:00</published>
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<id>997ce888324685a90fb5d0fa26293eb8826c767c</id>
<content type='text'>
Remove superfluous stack frame, saving us 3 instructions for
every JMP_CALL.

Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Remove superfluous stack frame, saving us 3 instructions for
every JMP_CALL.

Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: bpf: implement bpf_tail_call() helper</title>
<updated>2016-06-11T06:11:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zi Shen Lim</name>
<email>zlim.lnx@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-09T04:18:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ddb55992b04d9749e7c00af7f855e4e13566a521'/>
<id>ddb55992b04d9749e7c00af7f855e4e13566a521</id>
<content type='text'>
Add support for JMP_CALL_X (tail call) introduced by commit 04fd61ab36ec
("bpf: allow bpf programs to tail-call other bpf programs").

bpf_tail_call() arguments:
  ctx   - context pointer passed to next program
  array - pointer to map which type is BPF_MAP_TYPE_PROG_ARRAY
  index - index inside array that selects specific program to run

In this implementation arm64 JIT jumps into callee program after prologue,
so callee program reuses the same stack. For tail_call_cnt, we use the
callee-saved R26 (which was already saved/restored but previously unused
by JIT).

With this patch a tail call generates the following code on arm64:

  if (index &gt;= array-&gt;map.max_entries)
      goto out;

  34:   mov     x10, #0x10                      // #16
  38:   ldr     w10, [x1,x10]
  3c:   cmp     w2, w10
  40:   b.ge    0x0000000000000074

  if (tail_call_cnt &gt; MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT)
      goto out;
  tail_call_cnt++;

  44:   mov     x10, #0x20                      // #32
  48:   cmp     x26, x10
  4c:   b.gt    0x0000000000000074
  50:   add     x26, x26, #0x1

  prog = array-&gt;ptrs[index];
  if (prog == NULL)
      goto out;

  54:   mov     x10, #0x68                      // #104
  58:   ldr     x10, [x1,x10]
  5c:   ldr     x11, [x10,x2]
  60:   cbz     x11, 0x0000000000000074

  goto *(prog-&gt;bpf_func + prologue_size);

  64:   mov     x10, #0x20                      // #32
  68:   ldr     x10, [x11,x10]
  6c:   add     x10, x10, #0x20
  70:   br      x10
  74:

Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Add support for JMP_CALL_X (tail call) introduced by commit 04fd61ab36ec
("bpf: allow bpf programs to tail-call other bpf programs").

bpf_tail_call() arguments:
  ctx   - context pointer passed to next program
  array - pointer to map which type is BPF_MAP_TYPE_PROG_ARRAY
  index - index inside array that selects specific program to run

In this implementation arm64 JIT jumps into callee program after prologue,
so callee program reuses the same stack. For tail_call_cnt, we use the
callee-saved R26 (which was already saved/restored but previously unused
by JIT).

With this patch a tail call generates the following code on arm64:

  if (index &gt;= array-&gt;map.max_entries)
      goto out;

  34:   mov     x10, #0x10                      // #16
  38:   ldr     w10, [x1,x10]
  3c:   cmp     w2, w10
  40:   b.ge    0x0000000000000074

  if (tail_call_cnt &gt; MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT)
      goto out;
  tail_call_cnt++;

  44:   mov     x10, #0x20                      // #32
  48:   cmp     x26, x10
  4c:   b.gt    0x0000000000000074
  50:   add     x26, x26, #0x1

  prog = array-&gt;ptrs[index];
  if (prog == NULL)
      goto out;

  54:   mov     x10, #0x68                      // #104
  58:   ldr     x10, [x1,x10]
  5c:   ldr     x11, [x10,x2]
  60:   cbz     x11, 0x0000000000000074

  goto *(prog-&gt;bpf_func + prologue_size);

  64:   mov     x10, #0x20                      // #32
  68:   ldr     x10, [x11,x10]
  6c:   add     x10, x10, #0x20
  70:   br      x10
  74:

Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: arm64: remove callee-save registers use for tmp registers</title>
<updated>2016-05-17T18:03:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Shi</name>
<email>yang.shi@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-16T23:36:26+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
In the current implementation of ARM64 eBPF JIT, R23 and R24 are used for
tmp registers, which are callee-saved registers. This leads to variable size
of JIT prologue and epilogue. The latest blinding constant change prefers to
constant size of prologue and epilogue. AAPCS reserves R9 ~ R15 for temp
registers which not need to be saved/restored during function call. So, replace
R23 and R24 to R10 and R11, and remove tmp_used flag to save 2 instructions for
some jited BPF program.

CC: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
In the current implementation of ARM64 eBPF JIT, R23 and R24 are used for
tmp registers, which are callee-saved registers. This leads to variable size
of JIT prologue and epilogue. The latest blinding constant change prefers to
constant size of prologue and epilogue. AAPCS reserves R9 ~ R15 for temp
registers which not need to be saved/restored during function call. So, replace
R23 and R24 to R10 and R11, and remove tmp_used flag to save 2 instructions for
some jited BPF program.

CC: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf, arm64: add support for constant blinding</title>
<updated>2016-05-16T17:49:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-13T17:08:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=26eb042ee4c7845aa395c41c4e125c240b82b984'/>
<id>26eb042ee4c7845aa395c41c4e125c240b82b984</id>
<content type='text'>
This patch adds recently added constant blinding helpers into the
arm64 eBPF JIT. In the bpf_int_jit_compile() path, requirements are
to utilize bpf_jit_blind_constants()/bpf_jit_prog_release_other()
pair for rewriting the program into a blinded one, and to map the
BPF_REG_AX register to a CPU register. The mapping is on x9.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
This patch adds recently added constant blinding helpers into the
arm64 eBPF JIT. In the bpf_int_jit_compile() path, requirements are
to utilize bpf_jit_blind_constants()/bpf_jit_prog_release_other()
pair for rewriting the program into a blinded one, and to map the
BPF_REG_AX register to a CPU register. The mapping is on x9.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: prepare bpf_int_jit_compile/bpf_prog_select_runtime apis</title>
<updated>2016-05-16T17:49:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-13T17:08:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=d1c55ab5e41fcd72cb0a8bef86d3f652ad9ad9f5'/>
<id>d1c55ab5e41fcd72cb0a8bef86d3f652ad9ad9f5</id>
<content type='text'>
Since the blinding is strictly only called from inside eBPF JITs,
we need to change signatures for bpf_int_jit_compile() and
bpf_prog_select_runtime() first in order to prepare that the
eBPF program we're dealing with can change underneath. Hence,
for call sites, we need to return the latest prog. No functional
change in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Since the blinding is strictly only called from inside eBPF JITs,
we need to change signatures for bpf_int_jit_compile() and
bpf_prog_select_runtime() first in order to prepare that the
eBPF program we're dealing with can change underneath. Hence,
for call sites, we need to return the latest prog. No functional
change in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf, x86/arm64: remove useless checks on prog</title>
<updated>2016-05-16T17:49:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-13T17:08:29+00:00</published>
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<id>93a73d442d370e20ed1009cd79cb29c4d7c0ee86</id>
<content type='text'>
There is never such a situation, where bpf_int_jit_compile() is
called with either prog as NULL or len as 0, so the tests are
unnecessary and confusing as people would just copy them. s390
doesn't have them, so no change is needed there.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
There is never such a situation, where bpf_int_jit_compile() is
called with either prog as NULL or len as 0, so the tests are
unnecessary and confusing as people would just copy them. s390
doesn't have them, so no change is needed there.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: bpf: jit JMP_JSET_{X,K}</title>
<updated>2016-05-14T20:11:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zi Shen Lim</name>
<email>zlim.lnx@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-13T06:37:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=98397fc547e3f4553553a30ea56fa34d613f0a4c'/>
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<content type='text'>
Original implementation commit e54bcde3d69d ("arm64: eBPF JIT compiler")
had the relevant code paths, but due to an oversight always fail jiting.

As a result, we had been falling back to BPF interpreter whenever a BPF
program has JMP_JSET_{X,K} instructions.

With this fix, we confirm that the corresponding tests in lib/test_bpf
continue to pass, and also jited.

...
[    2.784553] test_bpf: #30 JSET jited:1 188 192 197 PASS
[    2.791373] test_bpf: #31 tcpdump port 22 jited:1 325 677 625 PASS
[    2.808800] test_bpf: #32 tcpdump complex jited:1 323 731 991 PASS
...
[    3.190759] test_bpf: #237 JMP_JSET_K: if (0x3 &amp; 0x2) return 1 jited:1 110 PASS
[    3.192524] test_bpf: #238 JMP_JSET_K: if (0x3 &amp; 0xffffffff) return 1 jited:1 98 PASS
[    3.211014] test_bpf: #249 JMP_JSET_X: if (0x3 &amp; 0x2) return 1 jited:1 120 PASS
[    3.212973] test_bpf: #250 JMP_JSET_X: if (0x3 &amp; 0xffffffff) return 1 jited:1 89 PASS
...

Fixes: e54bcde3d69d ("arm64: eBPF JIT compiler")
Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Original implementation commit e54bcde3d69d ("arm64: eBPF JIT compiler")
had the relevant code paths, but due to an oversight always fail jiting.

As a result, we had been falling back to BPF interpreter whenever a BPF
program has JMP_JSET_{X,K} instructions.

With this fix, we confirm that the corresponding tests in lib/test_bpf
continue to pass, and also jited.

...
[    2.784553] test_bpf: #30 JSET jited:1 188 192 197 PASS
[    2.791373] test_bpf: #31 tcpdump port 22 jited:1 325 677 625 PASS
[    2.808800] test_bpf: #32 tcpdump complex jited:1 323 731 991 PASS
...
[    3.190759] test_bpf: #237 JMP_JSET_K: if (0x3 &amp; 0x2) return 1 jited:1 110 PASS
[    3.192524] test_bpf: #238 JMP_JSET_K: if (0x3 &amp; 0xffffffff) return 1 jited:1 98 PASS
[    3.211014] test_bpf: #249 JMP_JSET_X: if (0x3 &amp; 0x2) return 1 jited:1 120 PASS
[    3.212973] test_bpf: #250 JMP_JSET_X: if (0x3 &amp; 0xffffffff) return 1 jited:1 89 PASS
...

Fixes: e54bcde3d69d ("arm64: eBPF JIT compiler")
Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: bpf: add extra pass to handle faulty codegen</title>
<updated>2016-01-18T00:15:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zi Shen Lim</name>
<email>zlim.lnx@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-14T07:33:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=42ff712bc0c3d7cd60d29b319aecd2d2c8cc75d4'/>
<id>42ff712bc0c3d7cd60d29b319aecd2d2c8cc75d4</id>
<content type='text'>
Code generation functions in arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c previously
BUG_ON invalid parameters. Following change of that behavior, now we
need to handle the error case where AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT is returned.

Instead of error-handling on every emit() in JIT, we add a new
validation pass at the end of JIT compilation. There's no point in
running JITed code at run-time only to trap due to AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT.
Instead, we drop this failed JIT compilation and allow the system to
gracefully fallback on the BPF interpreter.

Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Code generation functions in arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c previously
BUG_ON invalid parameters. Following change of that behavior, now we
need to handle the error case where AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT is returned.

Instead of error-handling on every emit() in JIT, we add a new
validation pass at the end of JIT compilation. There's no point in
running JITed code at run-time only to trap due to AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT.
Instead, we drop this failed JIT compilation and allow the system to
gracefully fallback on the BPF interpreter.

Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: move clearing of A/X into classic to eBPF migration prologue</title>
<updated>2015-12-18T21:04:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-17T22:51:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=8b614aebecdf2b1f72d51b1527f5a75d218b78e2'/>
<id>8b614aebecdf2b1f72d51b1527f5a75d218b78e2</id>
<content type='text'>
Back in the days where eBPF (or back then "internal BPF" ;-&gt;) was not
exposed to user space, and only the classic BPF programs internally
translated into eBPF programs, we missed the fact that for classic BPF
A and X needed to be cleared. It was fixed back then via 83d5b7ef99c9
("net: filter: initialize A and X registers"), and thus classic BPF
specifics were added to the eBPF interpreter core to work around it.

This added some confusion for JIT developers later on that take the
eBPF interpreter code as an example for deriving their JIT. F.e. in
f75298f5c3fe ("s390/bpf: clear correct BPF accumulator register"), at
least X could leak stack memory. Furthermore, since this is only needed
for classic BPF translations and not for eBPF (verifier takes care
that read access to regs cannot be done uninitialized), more complexity
is added to JITs as they need to determine whether they deal with
migrations or native eBPF where they can just omit clearing A/X in
their prologue and thus reduce image size a bit, see f.e. cde66c2d88da
("s390/bpf: Only clear A and X for converted BPF programs"). In other
cases (x86, arm64), A and X is being cleared in the prologue also for
eBPF case, which is unnecessary.

Lets move this into the BPF migration in bpf_convert_filter() where it
actually belongs as long as the number of eBPF JITs are still few. It
can thus be done generically; allowing us to remove the quirk from
__bpf_prog_run() and to slightly reduce JIT image size in case of eBPF,
while reducing code duplication on this matter in current(/future) eBPF
JITs.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Holzheu &lt;holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Holzheu &lt;holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Back in the days where eBPF (or back then "internal BPF" ;-&gt;) was not
exposed to user space, and only the classic BPF programs internally
translated into eBPF programs, we missed the fact that for classic BPF
A and X needed to be cleared. It was fixed back then via 83d5b7ef99c9
("net: filter: initialize A and X registers"), and thus classic BPF
specifics were added to the eBPF interpreter core to work around it.

This added some confusion for JIT developers later on that take the
eBPF interpreter code as an example for deriving their JIT. F.e. in
f75298f5c3fe ("s390/bpf: clear correct BPF accumulator register"), at
least X could leak stack memory. Furthermore, since this is only needed
for classic BPF translations and not for eBPF (verifier takes care
that read access to regs cannot be done uninitialized), more complexity
is added to JITs as they need to determine whether they deal with
migrations or native eBPF where they can just omit clearing A/X in
their prologue and thus reduce image size a bit, see f.e. cde66c2d88da
("s390/bpf: Only clear A and X for converted BPF programs"). In other
cases (x86, arm64), A and X is being cleared in the prologue also for
eBPF case, which is unnecessary.

Lets move this into the BPF migration in bpf_convert_filter() where it
actually belongs as long as the number of eBPF JITs are still few. It
can thus be done generically; allowing us to remove the quirk from
__bpf_prog_run() and to slightly reduce JIT image size in case of eBPF,
while reducing code duplication on this matter in current(/future) eBPF
JITs.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Holzheu &lt;holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Holzheu &lt;holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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