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Commit c648c9c7 authored by Luke Nelson's avatar Luke Nelson Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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bpf, arm: Optimize ALU ARSH K using asr immediate instruction



This patch adds an optimization that uses the asr immediate instruction
for BPF_ALU BPF_ARSH BPF_K, rather than loading the immediate to
a temporary register. This is similar to existing code for handling
BPF_ALU BPF_{LSH,RSH} BPF_K. This optimization saves two instructions
and is more consistent with LSH and RSH.

Example of the code generated for BPF_ALU32_IMM(BPF_ARSH, BPF_REG_0, 5)
before the optimization:

  2c:  mov    r8, #5
  30:  mov    r9, #0
  34:  asr    r0, r0, r8

and after optimization:

  2c:  asr    r0, r0, #5

Tested on QEMU using lib/test_bpf and test_verifier.

Co-developed-by: default avatarXi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuke Nelson <luke.r.nels@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200501020210.32294-3-luke.r.nels@gmail.com
parent cf48db69
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