Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 2 authors, 2022-01-03

Re: [PATCH 3/4] bpf, docs: Generate nicer tables for instruction encodings

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2022-01-03 09:57:18
Also in: bpf, netdev

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 04:43:24PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
quoted
+  ========  =====  =========================
+  code      value  description
+  ========  =====  =========================
+  BPF_JA    0x00   BPF_JMP only
   BPF_JEQ   0x10
   BPF_JGT   0x20
   BPF_JGE   0x30
   BPF_JSET  0x40
Not your fault, but the new table looks odd with
only some opcodes documented.
Same issue with BPF_ALU table.
In the past the documented opcodes were for eBPF only and
not documented in both, so it wasn't that bad.
At least there was a reason for discrepancy.
Now it just odd.
May be add a comment to all rows?
Yes, having the description everywhere would be good.  But I'll have to
do research to actually figure out what should go in there for some.
quoted
+  =============  =====  =====================
+  mode modifier  value  description
+  =============  =====  =====================
+  BPF_IMM        0x00   used for 64-bit mov
+  BPF_ABS        0x20
+  BPF_IND        0x40
+  BPF_MEM        0x60
May be say here that ABS and IND are legacy for compat with classic only?
and MEM is the most common modifier for load/store?
Sure.
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