[PATCH] [RFC PATCH] BPF backend

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
> I don't envision a lot of failures because the back-end is *really*
> simple. Things like invalid types, library calls, struct byval,
> bitfields, anonymous unions and general optimizations should not
> change much of the tests on his back-end. Most of the other commits
> should be pretty orthogonal.

exactly.
In my experience starting at 3.2 and step by step keeping it
working till now, there was nothing challenging.

All the fun compiler stuff like vectorization, lto, *san are
not applicable to BPF.
Anyone doing code refactoring will be able to
search_and_replace in this backend just like in others.