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authorBrendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>2021-01-20 13:39:45 +0000
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2021-01-20 17:02:49 -0800
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tree9739295731d9473ba31998db3afeb921082dff81
parentMerge branch 'bpf: misc performance improvements for cgroup' (diff)
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docs: bpf: Fixup atomics markup
This fixes up the markup to fix a warning, be more consistent with use of monospace, and use the correct .rst syntax for <em> (* instead of _). Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210120133946.2107897-2-jackmanb@google.com
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/filter.rst15
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.rst b/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
index 45f6fde1776c..4c2bb4c6364d 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
@@ -1066,12 +1066,12 @@ memory location addresed by ``dst_reg + off`` is atomically modified, with
immediate, then these operations also overwrite ``src_reg`` with the
value that was in memory before it was modified.
-The more special operations are:
+The more special operations are::
BPF_XCHG
This atomically exchanges ``src_reg`` with the value addressed by ``dst_reg +
-off``.
+off``. ::
BPF_CMPXCHG
@@ -1081,18 +1081,19 @@ before is loaded back to ``R0``.
Note that 1 and 2 byte atomic operations are not supported.
-Except ``BPF_ADD`` _without_ ``BPF_FETCH`` (for legacy reasons), all 4 byte
+Except ``BPF_ADD`` *without* ``BPF_FETCH`` (for legacy reasons), all 4 byte
atomic operations require alu32 mode. Clang enables this mode by default in
architecture v3 (``-mcpu=v3``). For older versions it can be enabled with
``-Xclang -target-feature -Xclang +alu32``.
-You may encounter BPF_XADD - this is a legacy name for BPF_ATOMIC, referring to
-the exclusive-add operation encoded when the immediate field is zero.
+You may encounter ``BPF_XADD`` - this is a legacy name for ``BPF_ATOMIC``,
+referring to the exclusive-add operation encoded when the immediate field is
+zero.
-eBPF has one 16-byte instruction: BPF_LD | BPF_DW | BPF_IMM which consists
+eBPF has one 16-byte instruction: ``BPF_LD | BPF_DW | BPF_IMM`` which consists
of two consecutive ``struct bpf_insn`` 8-byte blocks and interpreted as single
instruction that loads 64-bit immediate value into a dst_reg.
-Classic BPF has similar instruction: BPF_LD | BPF_W | BPF_IMM which loads
+Classic BPF has similar instruction: ``BPF_LD | BPF_W | BPF_IMM`` which loads
32-bit immediate value into a register.
eBPF verifier