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Commit ec0738db authored by Yang Shi's avatar Yang Shi Committed by David S. Miller
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arm64: bpf: make BPF prologue and epilogue align with ARM64 AAPCS



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: default avatarYang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarZi Shen Lim <zlim.lnx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent e639b8d8
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