Commit be3193cd authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by Alexei Starovoitov

bpf, docs: Add subsections for ALU and JMP instructions

Add a little more stucture to the ALU/JMP documentation with sections and
improve the example text.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220103183556.41040-3-hch@lst.de
parent 62e46838
......@@ -74,7 +74,13 @@ The 4th bit encodes the source operand:
The four MSB bits store the operation code.
For class BPF_ALU or BPF_ALU64:
Arithmetic instructions
-----------------------
BPF_ALU uses 32-bit wide operands while BPF_ALU64 uses 64-bit wide operands for
otherwise identical operations.
The code field encodes the operation as below:
======== ===== =========================
code value description
......@@ -95,7 +101,29 @@ For class BPF_ALU or BPF_ALU64:
BPF_END 0xd0 endianness conversion
======== ===== =========================
For class BPF_JMP or BPF_JMP32:
BPF_ADD | BPF_X | BPF_ALU means::
dst_reg = (u32) dst_reg + (u32) src_reg;
BPF_ADD | BPF_X | BPF_ALU64 means::
dst_reg = dst_reg + src_reg
BPF_XOR | BPF_K | BPF_ALU means::
src_reg = (u32) src_reg ^ (u32) imm32
BPF_XOR | BPF_K | BPF_ALU64 means::
src_reg = src_reg ^ imm32
Jump instructions
-----------------
BPF_JMP32 uses 32-bit wide operands while BPF_JMP uses 64-bit wide operands for
otherwise identical operations.
The code field encodes the operation as below:
======== ===== =========================
code value description
......@@ -116,24 +144,8 @@ For class BPF_JMP or BPF_JMP32:
BPF_JSLE 0xd0 signed '<='
======== ===== =========================
So BPF_ADD | BPF_X | BPF_ALU means::
dst_reg = (u32) dst_reg + (u32) src_reg;
Similarly, BPF_XOR | BPF_K | BPF_ALU means::
src_reg = (u32) src_reg ^ (u32) imm32
eBPF is using BPF_MOV | BPF_X | BPF_ALU to represent A = B moves. BPF_ALU64
is used to mean exactly the same operations as BPF_ALU, but with 64-bit wide
operands instead. So BPF_ADD | BPF_X | BPF_ALU64 means 64-bit addition, i.e.::
dst_reg = dst_reg + src_reg
BPF_JMP | BPF_EXIT means function exit only. The eBPF program needs to store
the return value into register R0 before doing a BPF_EXIT. Class 6 is used as
BPF_JMP32 to mean exactly the same operations as BPF_JMP, but with 32-bit wide
operands for the comparisons instead.
The eBPF program needs to store the return value into register R0 before doing a
BPF_EXIT.
Load and store instructions
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