Re: [PATCH v9 bpf-next 9/9] bpf, x86_64: use bpf_jit_binary_pack_alloc

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Sat Jul 02 2022 - 23:04:20 EST


On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 8:02 PM Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-02-04 10:57:42 -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> > From: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
> >
> > Use bpf_jit_binary_pack_alloc in x86_64 jit. The jit engine first writes
> > the program to the rw buffer. When the jit is done, the program is copied
> > to the final location with bpf_jit_binary_pack_finalize.
> >
> > Note that we need to do bpf_tail_call_direct_fixup after finalize.
> > Therefore, the text_live = false logic in __bpf_arch_text_poke is no
> > longer needed.
>
> I think this broke bpf_jit_enable = 2.

Good. We need to remove that knob.
It's been wrong for a long time.