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author | Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> | 2023-07-28 04:13:42 +0300 |
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committer | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2023-07-28 04:54:17 +0300 |
commit | 245d4c40c09bd8d5a71640950eeb074880925b9a (patch) | |
tree | 8a3d4a4f619e77037669f3afb0f48e6733fdfc8b | |
parent | 0c606571ae07568b18c112d011dc8cd01d6ae346 (diff) | |
download | linux-245d4c40c09bd8d5a71640950eeb074880925b9a.tar.xz |
docs/bpf: Add documentation for new instructions
Add documentation in instruction-set.rst for new instruction encoding
and their corresponding operations. Also removed the question
related to 'no BPF_SDIV' in bpf_design_QA.rst since we have
BPF_SDIV insn now.
Cc: bpf@ietf.org
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230728011342.3724411-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst | 115 |
2 files changed, 79 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst index 38372a956d65..eb19c945f4d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst @@ -140,11 +140,6 @@ A: Because if we picked one-to-one relationship to x64 it would have made it more complicated to support on arm64 and other archs. Also it needs div-by-zero runtime check. -Q: Why there is no BPF_SDIV for signed divide operation? -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -A: Because it would be rarely used. llvm errors in such case and -prints a suggestion to use unsigned divide instead. - Q: Why BPF has implicit prologue and epilogue? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A: Because architectures like sparc have register windows and in general diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst index 6ef5534b410a..23e880a83a1f 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst @@ -154,24 +154,27 @@ otherwise identical operations. The 'code' field encodes the operation as below, where 'src' and 'dst' refer to the values of the source and destination registers, respectively. -======== ===== ========================================================== -code value description -======== ===== ========================================================== -BPF_ADD 0x00 dst += src -BPF_SUB 0x10 dst -= src -BPF_MUL 0x20 dst \*= src -BPF_DIV 0x30 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst / src) : 0 -BPF_OR 0x40 dst \|= src -BPF_AND 0x50 dst &= src -BPF_LSH 0x60 dst <<= (src & mask) -BPF_RSH 0x70 dst >>= (src & mask) -BPF_NEG 0x80 dst = -dst -BPF_MOD 0x90 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst % src) : dst -BPF_XOR 0xa0 dst ^= src -BPF_MOV 0xb0 dst = src -BPF_ARSH 0xc0 sign extending dst >>= (src & mask) -BPF_END 0xd0 byte swap operations (see `Byte swap instructions`_ below) -======== ===== ========================================================== +======== ===== ======= ========================================================== +code value offset description +======== ===== ======= ========================================================== +BPF_ADD 0x00 0 dst += src +BPF_SUB 0x10 0 dst -= src +BPF_MUL 0x20 0 dst \*= src +BPF_DIV 0x30 0 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst / src) : 0 +BPF_SDIV 0x30 1 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst s/ src) : 0 +BPF_OR 0x40 0 dst \|= src +BPF_AND 0x50 0 dst &= src +BPF_LSH 0x60 0 dst <<= (src & mask) +BPF_RSH 0x70 0 dst >>= (src & mask) +BPF_NEG 0x80 0 dst = -dst +BPF_MOD 0x90 0 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst % src) : dst +BPF_SMOD 0x90 1 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst s% src) : dst +BPF_XOR 0xa0 0 dst ^= src +BPF_MOV 0xb0 0 dst = src +BPF_MOVSX 0xb0 8/16/32 dst = (s8,s16,s32)src +BPF_ARSH 0xc0 0 sign extending dst >>= (src & mask) +BPF_END 0xd0 0 byte swap operations (see `Byte swap instructions`_ below) +======== ===== ============ ========================================================== Underflow and overflow are allowed during arithmetic operations, meaning the 64-bit or 32-bit value will wrap. If eBPF program execution would @@ -198,11 +201,20 @@ where '(u32)' indicates that the upper 32 bits are zeroed. dst = dst ^ imm32 -Also note that the division and modulo operations are unsigned. Thus, for -``BPF_ALU``, 'imm' is first interpreted as an unsigned 32-bit value, whereas -for ``BPF_ALU64``, 'imm' is first sign extended to 64 bits and the result -interpreted as an unsigned 64-bit value. There are no instructions for -signed division or modulo. +Note that most instructions have instruction offset of 0. But three instructions +(BPF_SDIV, BPF_SMOD, BPF_MOVSX) have non-zero offset. + +The devision and modulo operations support both unsigned and signed flavors. +For unsigned operation (BPF_DIV and BPF_MOD), for ``BPF_ALU``, 'imm' is first +interpreted as an unsigned 32-bit value, whereas for ``BPF_ALU64``, 'imm' is +first sign extended to 64 bits and the result interpreted as an unsigned 64-bit +value. For signed operation (BPF_SDIV and BPF_SMOD), for ``BPF_ALU``, 'imm' is +interpreted as a signed value. For ``BPF_ALU64``, the 'imm' is sign extended +from 32 to 64 and interpreted as a signed 64-bit value. + +Instruction BPF_MOVSX does move operation with sign extension. +``BPF_ALU | MOVSX`` sign extendes 8-bit and 16-bit into 32-bit and upper 32-bit are zeroed. +``BPF_ALU64 | MOVSX`` sign extends 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit into 64-bit. Shift operations use a mask of 0x3F (63) for 64-bit operations and 0x1F (31) for 32-bit operations. @@ -210,21 +222,23 @@ for 32-bit operations. Byte swap instructions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The byte swap instructions use an instruction class of ``BPF_ALU`` and a 4-bit -'code' field of ``BPF_END``. +The byte swap instructions use instruction classes of ``BPF_ALU`` and ``BPF_ALU64`` +and a 4-bit 'code' field of ``BPF_END``. The byte swap instructions operate on the destination register only and do not use a separate source register or immediate value. -The 1-bit source operand field in the opcode is used to select what byte -order the operation convert from or to: +For ``BPF_ALU``, the 1-bit source operand field in the opcode is used to select what byte +order the operation convert from or to. For ``BPF_ALU64``, the 1-bit source operand +field in the opcode is not used and must be 0. -========= ===== ================================================= -source value description -========= ===== ================================================= -BPF_TO_LE 0x00 convert between host byte order and little endian -BPF_TO_BE 0x08 convert between host byte order and big endian -========= ===== ================================================= +========= ========= ===== ================================================= +class source value description +========= ========= ===== ================================================= +BPF_ALU BPF_TO_LE 0x00 convert between host byte order and little endian +BPF_ALU BPF_TO_BE 0x08 convert between host byte order and big endian +BPF_ALU64 BPF_TO_LE 0x00 do byte swap unconditionally +========= ========= ===== ================================================= The 'imm' field encodes the width of the swap operations. The following widths are supported: 16, 32 and 64. @@ -239,6 +253,12 @@ Examples: dst = htobe64(dst) +``BPF_ALU64 | BPF_TO_LE | BPF_END`` with imm = 16/32/64 means:: + + dst = bswap16 dst + dst = bswap32 dst + dst = bswap64 dst + Jump instructions ----------------- @@ -249,7 +269,8 @@ The 'code' field encodes the operation as below: ======== ===== === =========================================== ========================================= code value src description notes ======== ===== === =========================================== ========================================= -BPF_JA 0x0 0x0 PC += offset BPF_JMP only +BPF_JA 0x0 0x0 PC += offset BPF_JMP class +BPF_JA 0x0 0x0 PC += imm BPF_JMP32 class BPF_JEQ 0x1 any PC += offset if dst == src BPF_JGT 0x2 any PC += offset if dst > src unsigned BPF_JGE 0x3 any PC += offset if dst >= src unsigned @@ -278,6 +299,16 @@ Example: where 's>=' indicates a signed '>=' comparison. +``BPF_JA | BPF_K | BPF_JMP32`` (0x06) means:: + + gotol +imm + +where 'imm' means the branch offset comes from insn 'imm' field. + +Note there are two flavors of BPF_JA instrions. BPF_JMP class permits 16-bit jump offset while +BPF_JMP32 permits 32-bit jump offset. A >16bit conditional jmp can be converted to a <16bit +conditional jmp plus a 32-bit unconditional jump. + Helper functions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -320,6 +351,7 @@ The mode modifier is one of: BPF_ABS 0x20 legacy BPF packet access (absolute) `Legacy BPF Packet access instructions`_ BPF_IND 0x40 legacy BPF packet access (indirect) `Legacy BPF Packet access instructions`_ BPF_MEM 0x60 regular load and store operations `Regular load and store operations`_ + BPF_MEMSX 0x80 sign-extension load operations `Sign-extension load operations`_ BPF_ATOMIC 0xc0 atomic operations `Atomic operations`_ ============= ===== ==================================== ============= @@ -350,9 +382,20 @@ instructions that transfer data between a register and memory. ``BPF_MEM | <size> | BPF_LDX`` means:: - dst = *(size *) (src + offset) + dst = *(unsigned size *) (src + offset) + +Where size is one of: ``BPF_B``, ``BPF_H``, ``BPF_W``, or ``BPF_DW`` and +'unsigned size' is one of u8, u16, u32 and u64. + +The ``BPF_MEMSX`` mode modifier is used to encode sign-extension load +instructions that transfer data between a register and memory. + +``BPF_MEMSX | <size> | BPF_LDX`` means:: + + dst = *(signed size *) (src + offset) -Where size is one of: ``BPF_B``, ``BPF_H``, ``BPF_W``, or ``BPF_DW``. +Where size is one of: ``BPF_B``, ``BPF_H`` or ``BPF_W``, and +'signed size' is one of s8, s16 and s32. Atomic operations ----------------- |