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authorDave Thaler <dthaler@microsoft.com>2023-01-27 04:47:06 +0300
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2023-02-08 20:25:26 +0300
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bpf, docs: Add note about type convention
Add explanation about use of "u64", "u32", etc. as the type convention used in BPF documentation. Signed-off-by: Dave Thaler <dthaler@microsoft.com> Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230127014706.1005-1-dthaler1968@googlemail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst b/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst
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--- a/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst
+++ b/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ eBPF Instruction Set Specification, v1.0
This document specifies version 1.0 of the eBPF instruction set.
+Documentation conventions
+=========================
+
+For brevity, this document uses the type notion "u64", "u32", etc.
+to mean an unsigned integer whose width is the specified number of bits.
Registers and calling convention
================================
@@ -164,6 +169,8 @@ the destination register is unchanged whereas for ``BPF_ALU`` the upper
dst = (u32) ((u32) dst + (u32) src)
+where '(u32)' indicates that the upper 32 bits are zeroed.
+
``BPF_ADD | BPF_X | BPF_ALU64`` means::
dst = dst + src