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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:37:11 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] arm64: bpf: make BPF prologue and epilogue align
 with ARM64 AAPCS
From: Z Lim <zlim.lnx@gmail.com>
To: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
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        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> 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@gmail.com>
> CC: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>

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