Commit 07801a24 authored by Dave Thaler's avatar Dave Thaler Committed by Daniel Borkmann

bpf, docs: Clarify PC use in instruction-set.rst

This patch elaborates on the use of PC by expanding the PC acronym,
explaining the units, and the relative position to which the offset
applies.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Thaler <dthaler1968@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240426231126.5130-1-dthaler1968@gmail.com
parent 6e25bcf0
......@@ -469,6 +469,12 @@ JSLT 0xc any PC += offset if dst < src signed
JSLE 0xd any PC += offset if dst <= src signed
======== ===== ======= ================================= ===================================================
where 'PC' denotes the program counter, and the offset to increment by
is in units of 64-bit instructions relative to the instruction following
the jump instruction. Thus 'PC += 1' skips execution of the next
instruction if it's a basic instruction or results in undefined behavior
if the next instruction is a 128-bit wide instruction.
The BPF program needs to store the return value into register R0 before doing an
``EXIT``.
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