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-rw-r--r--Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst13
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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst
index af43227b6ee4..fceacca46299 100644
--- a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst
+++ b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Note that most instructions do not use all of the fields.
Unused fields shall be cleared to zero.
As discussed below in `64-bit immediate instructions`_, a 64-bit immediate
-instruction uses a 64-bit immediate value that is constructed as follows.
+instruction uses two 32-bit immediate values that are constructed as follows.
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.
@@ -181,13 +181,8 @@ This is depicted in the following figure::
'--------------'
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. The unused bytes in the pseudo
-instruction are reserved and shall be cleared to zero.
+Here, the imm value of the pseudo instruction is called 'next_imm'. The unused
+bytes in the pseudo instruction are reserved and shall be cleared to zero.
Instruction classes
-------------------
@@ -590,7 +585,7 @@ defined further below:
========================= ====== === ========================================= =========== ==============
opcode construction opcode src pseudocode imm type dst type
========================= ====== === ========================================= =========== ==============
-BPF_IMM | BPF_DW | BPF_LD 0x18 0x0 dst = imm64 integer integer
+BPF_IMM | BPF_DW | BPF_LD 0x18 0x0 dst = (next_imm << 32) | imm integer integer
BPF_IMM | BPF_DW | BPF_LD 0x18 0x1 dst = map_by_fd(imm) map fd map
BPF_IMM | BPF_DW | BPF_LD 0x18 0x2 dst = map_val(map_by_fd(imm)) + next_imm map fd data pointer
BPF_IMM | BPF_DW | BPF_LD 0x18 0x3 dst = var_addr(imm) variable id data pointer