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Commit ddf1864a authored by Yonghong Song's avatar Yonghong Song
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BPF: add AdjustOpt IR pass to generate verifier friendly codes

Add an IR phase right before main module optimization.
This is to modify IR to restrict certain downward optimizations
in order to generate verifier friendly code.
  > prevent certain instcombine optimizations, handling both
    in-block/cross-block instcombines.
  > avoid speculative code motion if the variable used in
    condition is also used in the later blocks.

Internally, a bpf IR builtin
  result = __builtin_bpf_passthrough(seq_num, result)
is used to enforce ordering. This builtin is only used
during target independent IR optimizations and it will
be removed at the beginning of target dependent IR
optimizations.

For example, removing the following workaround,
  --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_sysctl_loop1.c
  +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_sysctl_loop1.c
  @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ int sysctl_tcp_mem(struct bpf_sysctl *ctx)
          /* a workaround to prevent compiler from generating
           * codes verifier cannot handle yet.
           */
  -       volatile int ret;
  +       int ret;
this patch is able to generate code which passed the verifier.

To disable optimization, users need to use "opt" command like below:
  clang -target bpf -O2 -S -emit-llvm -Xclang -disable-llvm-passes test.c
  // disable icmp serialization
  opt -O2 -bpf-disable-serialize-icmp test.ll | llvm-dis > t.ll
  // disable avoid-speculation
  opt -O2 -bpf-disable-avoid-speculation test.ll | llvm-dis > t.ll
  llc t.ll

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85570
parent 9908ee56
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