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Honey Potion: an eBPF backend for Elixir
Hi all! We are working on an eBPF backend for Elixir. It's called Honey Potion. The project is under development, but it is possible to write some useful programs at this point. For instance, in this video, one of the guys involved explains how to write a program to count system calls.
We have been working on an eBPF backend for the Elixir programming language. The current implementation is on this branch. EBPF is a bit like a virtual machine that runs on the Linux kernel. EBPF programs are typically used to implement network applications. The most interesting aspect of the backend is that Linux uses a verifier to ensure that eBPF programs always terminate and only access memory within allocated bounds.
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Targetting C
Hi! We have been translating Elixir to C (which we translate to eBPF) in HoneyPotion. We used mostly Chapter 15 of Appel's Modern Compiler Implementation in Java to implement the code generator (that's "15. Functional Programming Languages"). I think the choice of C has been good thus far. The implementation of Elixir's pattern matching took much work, but if we had chosen a higher level target, we would still have to translate that to eBPF. Here's the entry point for the translator.
- Writing eBPF Programs with Elixir
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Suggestion for a backend?
We have been working on a tool that translates Elixir to eBPF. We actually translate eBPF to C. Now that we have more stuff working, I really wonder if generating C was a good choice.
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Intersection of PLs with the OS
That's exactly what Honey Potion does, when we translate Elixir into Linux' eBPF!
qbe-rs
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Odin Programming Language
> I think it uses a different backend than LLVM
harec uses https://c9x.me/compile/
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Frontend for GCC?
Have you considered QBE?
- QBE – Compiler Back End
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What do C programmers think of the Zig language in 2023?
I really hope other new projects (like QBE) can really grow and become widely used
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Toy C compiler, worth having an IR stage?
I really liked targetting QBE (https://c9x.me/compile/) as an IR, as it gave me lots of back-end optimisations for free 😊.
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C or LLVM for a fast backend?
There is: QBE.
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A whirlwind tour of the LLVM optimizer
You might be underestimating the accuracy of the CPU models LLVM uses.
For x86, the same data the code generator uses drives llvm-mca[1], which given a loop body can tell you the throughput, latency, and microarchitectural bottlenecks (decoding, ports, dependencies, store forwarding, etc.)—if not always precisely, then still not worse then IACA, the tool written at Intel by people who presumably knew how the CPUs work, unlike LLVM contributors and the rest of us who can only guess and measure. This separately for Haswell, Sandy Bridge, Skylake, etc.; not “x86”.
Now, is this the best model you can get? Not exactly[2], but it’s close enough to not matter. Do we often need machine code to be optimized to that level of detail? Perhaps not[3], and with that in mind you can shave at least a factor of ten off LLVM’s considerable bulk at the cost of 20—30% of performance[4,5]. But if you do want those as well, it seems that the complexity of LLVM is a fair price, or has the right order of magnitude at least.
(Frontend not included, C++ frontend required to bootstrap sold separately, at a similar markup compared to a C-only frontend with somewhat worse ergonomics.)
[1] https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.html
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Made my first LLVM front-end… Now what?
You can try buildling you own backend like llvm. A good example or starting point is probably QBE since it is extremely small but very functional.
- Best book on writing an optimizing compiler (inlining, types, abstract interpretation)?
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Rust port of B3 from WebKit, LLVM-like backend
How big is the whole backend? I've heard that it is small but I wanted to compare it to QBE which is around 8 KLoC and it is quite interesting too.
What are some alternatives?
fping - High performance ping tool
ubpf - Userspace eBPF VM
pl0c - Self-hosting PL/0 to C compiler to teach basic compiler construction from a practical, hands-on perspective.
minivm - A VM That is Dynamic and Fast
TripleCross - A Linux eBPF rootkit with a backdoor, C2, library injection, execution hijacking, persistence and stealth capabilities.
mir - A lightweight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation) and C11 JIT compiler and interpreter based on MIR
libfirm - graph based intermediate representation and backend for optimising compilers
well - The Future of Assembly Language. https://wellang.github.io/well/
amacc - Small C Compiler generating ELF executable Arm architecture, supporting JIT execution
wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly
linux-nitrous - Mirror of https://gitlab.com/xdevs23/linux-nitrous
c4 - C in four functions