From: Will Hawkins <hawkinsw@obs.cr>
To: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] objdump, as: Add callx support for BPF CPU v1
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:44:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADx9qWgnOoJUPmRsFJ9PTtQOOO08kZY6d_RECT6wZjCuPs3ymA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87il2pivz7.fsf@oracle.com>
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:32 AM Jose E. Marchesi
<jose.marchesi@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 11:14 AM Jose E. Marchesi
> > <jose.marchesi@oracle.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 5:58 AM Jose E. Marchesi
> >> > <jose.marchesi@oracle.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> > First, as I said yesterday in my direct message to you, thank you for
> >> >> > making binutils such a pleasant place to contribute to FOSS. You have
> >> >> > no idea what that means to contributors like me!
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Second, thank you for this helpful critique. I really appreciated
> >> >> > reading your feedback and will reply inline below (including with an
> >> >> > offer for a patch unrelated to callx that may clean up some of the
> >> >> > non-constant uses throughout the bpf-specific code).
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Third, there is good news: The heavy lifting of this patch is largely
> >> >> > "overcome by events" -- clang/llvm developers are changing their
> >> >> > encoding of the callx instruction to more closely match what gcc does.
> >> >> > In fact, v3 of this patch will look much more like v1 than v2.
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi Will.
> >> >>
> >> >> It seems to me that all we need binutils-wise is to enable the callx
> >> >> instruction with BPF >= v1. No other changes are necessary as far as I
> >> >> can see, other than adjusting the testsuite accordingly.
> >> >
> >> > It should be making its way across the Internet to you now!
> >>
> >> Thanks :)
> >>
> >> > The only thing ... it will probably cause a build error until a
> >> > corresponding patch in the simulator lands that takes into
> >> > consideration the new enum value.
> >> >
> >> > I am happy to handle that however you like!
> >>
> >> No problem. I will tackle the simulator patch in the GDB list and apply
> >> both at almost the same time so the buildbots do not get (too) upset.
> >
> > Thanks!! It's been fun working on this. And, as I offered to Nick last
> > night, I am more than happy to take on a little project to do a
> > cleanup of the code. Just let me know if you would be open to that!
>
> By all means, and than you.
> Improvements are always very welcome :)
>
> BTW, I would ask you to not include a separated cover letter for single
> patches. This makes it easier to reply and quote to both the
> description of the patch and its contents.
Thank you! That's great feedback! I will definitely do that from now on!
Will
>
> >
> > Will
> >
> >>
> >> > Sorry for the delay!
> >> > Will
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-15 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-12 17:42 [PATCH v2 0/1] Add BPF callx support to objdump and as Will Hawkins
2024-02-12 17:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] objdump, as: Add callx support for BPF CPU v1 Will Hawkins
2024-02-13 11:57 ` Nick Clifton
2024-02-14 4:17 ` Will Hawkins
2024-02-14 10:58 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2024-02-14 16:04 ` Will Hawkins
2024-02-14 16:14 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2024-02-14 16:19 ` Will Hawkins
2024-02-15 15:32 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2024-02-15 21:44 ` Will Hawkins [this message]
2024-02-15 10:32 ` Nick Clifton
2024-02-12 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] Add BPF callx support to objdump and as Jose E. Marchesi
2024-02-12 22:25 ` Will Hawkins
2024-02-12 22:38 ` Will Hawkins
2024-02-12 22:50 ` Yonghong Song
2024-02-12 22:55 ` Will Hawkins
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