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author | Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> | 2024-01-27 11:46:29 -0800 |
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committer | Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> | 2024-01-29 16:54:33 +0100 |
commit | ced33f2cfa21a14a292a00e31dc9f85c1bfbda1c (patch) | |
tree | c1ff1a7054587716b2ad4cd071023314b4cca538 /tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | |
parent | efaa47db92451608499ab7edf108bf30141c33db (diff) |
docs/bpf: Improve documentation of 64-bit immediate instructions
For 64-bit immediate instruction, 'BPF_IMM | BPF_DW | BPF_LD' and
src_reg=[0-6], the current documentation describes the 64-bit
immediate is constructed by:
imm64 = (next_imm << 32) | imm
But actually imm64 is only used when src_reg=0. For all other
variants (src_reg != 0), 'imm' and 'next_imm' have separate special
encoding requirement and imm64 cannot be easily used to describe
instruction semantics.
This patch clarifies that 64-bit immediate instructions use
two 32-bit immediate values instead of a 64-bit immediate value,
so later describing individual 64-bit immediate instructions
becomes less confusing.
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Dave Thaler <dthaler1968@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240127194629.737589-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev
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