Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] arm64: bpf: make BPF prologue and epilogue align with ARM64 AAPCS

From: Z Lim
Date: Mon Nov 16 2015 - 23:37:19 EST


On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Save and restore FP/LR in BPF prog prologue and epilogue, save SP to FP
> in prologue in order to get the correct stack backtrace.
>
> However, ARM64 JIT used FP (x29) as eBPF fp register, FP is subjected to
> change during function call so it may cause the BPF prog stack base address
> change too.
>
> Use x25 to replace FP as BPF stack base register (fp). Since x25 is callee
> saved register, so it will keep intact during function call.
> It is initialized in BPF prog prologue when BPF prog is started to run
> everytime. Save and restore x25/x26 in BPF prologue and epilogue to keep
> them intact for the outside of BPF. Actually, x26 is unnecessary, but SP
> requires 16 bytes alignment.
>
> So, the BPF stack layout looks like:
>
> high
> original A64_SP => 0:+-----+ BPF prologue
> |FP/LR|
> current A64_FP => -16:+-----+
> | ... | callee saved registers
> +-----+
> | | x25/x26
> BPF fp register => -80:+-----+
> | |
> | ... | BPF prog stack
> | |
> | |
> current A64_SP => +-----+
> | |
> | ... | Function call stack
> | |
> +-----+
> low
>
> CC: Zi Shen Lim <zlim.lnx@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Xi Wang <xi.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Zi Shen Lim <zlim.lnx@xxxxxxxxx>
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