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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/linux-notes.rst b/Documentation/bpf/linux-notes.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..956b0c86699d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/bpf/linux-notes.rst @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +.. contents:: +.. sectnum:: + +========================== +Linux implementation notes +========================== + +This document provides more details specific to the Linux kernel implementation of the eBPF instruction set. + +Byte swap instructions +====================== + +``BPF_FROM_LE`` and ``BPF_FROM_BE`` exist as aliases for ``BPF_TO_LE`` and ``BPF_TO_BE`` respectively. + +Legacy BPF Packet access instructions +===================================== + +As mentioned in the `ISA standard documentation <instruction-set.rst#legacy-bpf-packet-access-instructions>`_, +Linux has special eBPF instructions for access to packet data that have been +carried over from classic BPF to retain the performance of legacy socket +filters running in the eBPF interpreter. + +The instructions come in two forms: ``BPF_ABS | <size> | BPF_LD`` and +``BPF_IND | <size> | BPF_LD``. + +These instructions are used to access packet data and can only be used when +the program context is a pointer to a networking packet. ``BPF_ABS`` +accesses packet data at an absolute offset specified by the immediate data +and ``BPF_IND`` access packet data at an offset that includes the value of +a register in addition to the immediate data. + +These instructions have seven implicit operands: + +* Register R6 is an implicit input that must contain a pointer to a + struct sk_buff. +* Register R0 is an implicit output which contains the data fetched from + the packet. +* Registers R1-R5 are scratch registers that are clobbered by the + instruction. + +These instructions have an implicit program exit condition as well. If an +eBPF program attempts access data beyond the packet boundary, the +program execution will be aborted. + +``BPF_ABS | BPF_W | BPF_LD`` (0x20) means:: + + R0 = ntohl(*(u32 *) ((struct sk_buff *) R6->data + imm)) + +where ``ntohl()`` converts a 32-bit value from network byte order to host byte order. + +``BPF_IND | BPF_W | BPF_LD`` (0x40) means:: + + R0 = ntohl(*(u32 *) ((struct sk_buff *) R6->data + src + imm)) |