From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:05:27 +0000 (+0100) Subject: bpf: don't emit mov A,A on return X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6205b9cf200d1c3dda5491666ddc33e7b70fe469;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git bpf: don't emit mov A,A on return While debugging with bpf_jit_disasm I noticed emissions of 'mov %eax,%eax', and found that this comes from BPF_RET | BPF_A translations from classic BPF. Emitting this is unnecessary as BPF_REG_A is mapped into BPF_REG_0 already, therefore only emit a mov when immediates are used as return value. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c index 8a0b8c3eb189..a3aba15a8025 100644 --- a/net/core/filter.c +++ b/net/core/filter.c @@ -530,12 +530,14 @@ do_pass: *insn = BPF_MOV64_REG(BPF_REG_A, BPF_REG_TMP); break; - /* RET_K, RET_A are remaped into 2 insns. */ + /* RET_K is remaped into 2 insns. RET_A case doesn't need an + * extra mov as BPF_REG_0 is already mapped into BPF_REG_A. + */ case BPF_RET | BPF_A: case BPF_RET | BPF_K: - *insn++ = BPF_MOV32_RAW(BPF_RVAL(fp->code) == BPF_K ? - BPF_K : BPF_X, BPF_REG_0, - BPF_REG_A, fp->k); + if (BPF_RVAL(fp->code) == BPF_K) + *insn++ = BPF_MOV32_RAW(BPF_K, BPF_REG_0, + 0, fp->k); *insn = BPF_EXIT_INSN(); break;