nfp: bpf: detect load/store sequences lowered from memory copy
This patch add the optimization frontend, but adding a new eBPF IR scan pass "nfp_bpf_opt_ldst_gather". The pass will traverse the IR to recognize the load/store pairs sequences that come from lowering of memory copy builtins. The gathered memory copy information will be kept in the meta info structure of the first load instruction in the sequence and will be consumed by the optimization backend added in the previous patches. NOTE: a sequence with cross memory access doesn't qualify this optimization, i.e. if one load in the sequence will load from place that has been written by previous store. This is because when we turn the sequence into single CPP operation, we are reading all contents at once into NFP transfer registers, then write them out as a whole. This is not identical with what the original load/store sequence is doing. Detecting cross memory access for two random pointers will be difficult, fortunately under XDP/eBPF's restrictied runtime environment, the copy normally happen among map, packet data and stack, they do not overlap with each other. And for cases supported by NFP, cross memory access will only happen on PTR_TO_PACKET. Fortunately for this, there is ID information that we could do accurate memory alias check. Signed-off-by: Jiong Wang <jiong.wang@netronome.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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