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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst b/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst index af515de5fc38..db8789e6969e 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst @@ -38,14 +38,11 @@ eBPF has two instruction encodings: * the wide instruction encoding, which appends a second 64-bit immediate (i.e., constant) value after the basic instruction for a total of 128 bits. -The basic instruction encoding is as follows, where MSB and LSB mean the most significant -bits and least significant bits, respectively: +The fields conforming an encoded basic instruction are stored in the +following order:: -============= ======= ======= ======= ============ -32 bits (MSB) 16 bits 4 bits 4 bits 8 bits (LSB) -============= ======= ======= ======= ============ -imm offset src_reg dst_reg opcode -============= ======= ======= ======= ============ + opcode:8 src_reg:4 dst_reg:4 offset:16 imm:32 // In little-endian BPF. + opcode:8 dst_reg:4 src_reg:4 offset:16 imm:32 // In big-endian BPF. **imm** signed integer immediate value @@ -63,6 +60,18 @@ imm offset src_reg dst_reg opcode **opcode** operation to perform +Note that the contents of multi-byte fields ('imm' and 'offset') are +stored using big-endian byte ordering in big-endian BPF and +little-endian byte ordering in little-endian BPF. + +For example:: + + opcode offset imm assembly + src_reg dst_reg + 07 0 1 00 00 44 33 22 11 r1 += 0x11223344 // little + dst_reg src_reg + 07 1 0 00 00 11 22 33 44 r1 += 0x11223344 // big + Note that most instructions do not use all of the fields. Unused fields shall be cleared to zero. @@ -72,18 +81,23 @@ The 64 bits following the basic instruction contain a pseudo instruction using the same format but with opcode, dst_reg, src_reg, and offset all set to zero, and imm containing the high 32 bits of the immediate value. -================= ================== -64 bits (MSB) 64 bits (LSB) -================= ================== -basic instruction pseudo instruction -================= ================== +This is depicted in the following figure:: + + basic_instruction + .-----------------------------. + | | + code:8 regs:8 offset:16 imm:32 unused:32 imm:32 + | | + '--------------' + pseudo instruction Thus the 64-bit immediate value is constructed as follows: imm64 = (next_imm << 32) | imm where 'next_imm' refers to the imm value of the pseudo instruction -following the basic instruction. +following the basic instruction. The unused bytes in the pseudo +instruction are reserved and shall be cleared to zero. Instruction classes ------------------- |