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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2022-01-03 19:35:53 +0100
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2022-01-05 13:11:26 -0800
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bpf, docs: Document the opcode classes
Add a description for each opcode class. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220103183556.41040-4-hch@lst.de
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@@ -38,18 +38,18 @@ Instruction classes
The three LSB bits of the 'opcode' field store the instruction class:
- ========= =====
- class value
- ========= =====
- BPF_LD 0x00
- BPF_LDX 0x01
- BPF_ST 0x02
- BPF_STX 0x03
- BPF_ALU 0x04
- BPF_JMP 0x05
- BPF_JMP32 0x06
- BPF_ALU64 0x07
- ========= =====
+ ========= ===== ===============================
+ class value description
+ ========= ===== ===============================
+ BPF_LD 0x00 non-standard load operations
+ BPF_LDX 0x01 load into register operations
+ BPF_ST 0x02 store from immediate operations
+ BPF_STX 0x03 store from register operations
+ BPF_ALU 0x04 32-bit arithmetic operations
+ BPF_JMP 0x05 64-bit jump operations
+ BPF_JMP32 0x06 32-bit jump operations
+ BPF_ALU64 0x07 64-bit arithmetic operations
+ ========= ===== ===============================
Arithmetic and jump instructions
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