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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2022-01-31 19:36:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2022-02-03 18:23:09 +0100 |
| commit | dd33fb571f5cd25c0d0f9d017dba783c85b70b82 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a8ec8a6a7e761fa6d354ce4c82bfbda453009ca /Documentation/bpf | |
| parent | Merge branch 'bpf-libbpf-deprecated-cleanup' (diff) | |
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bpf, docs: Document the byte swapping instructions
Add a section to document the byte swapping instructions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220131183638.3934982-2-hch@lst.de
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/bpf')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst | 44 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst b/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst index 3704836fe6df..87f6ad62633a 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst @@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ BPF_ALU uses 32-bit wide operands while BPF_ALU64 uses 64-bit wide operands for otherwise identical operations. The code field encodes the operation as below: - ======== ===== ========================== + ======== ===== ================================================= code value description - ======== ===== ========================== + ======== ===== ================================================= BPF_ADD 0x00 dst += src BPF_SUB 0x10 dst -= src BPF_MUL 0x20 dst \*= src @@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ The code field encodes the operation as below: BPF_XOR 0xa0 dst ^= src BPF_MOV 0xb0 dst = src BPF_ARSH 0xc0 sign extending shift right - BPF_END 0xd0 endianness conversion - ======== ===== ========================== + BPF_END 0xd0 byte swap operations (see separate section below) + ======== ===== ================================================= BPF_ADD | BPF_X | BPF_ALU means:: @@ -118,6 +118,42 @@ BPF_XOR | BPF_K | BPF_ALU64 means:: src_reg = src_reg ^ imm32 +Byte swap instructions +---------------------- + +The byte swap instructions use an instruction class of ``BFP_ALU`` and a 4-bit +code field of ``BPF_END``. + +The byte swap instructions 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 to select what byte +order the operation convert from or to: + + ========= ===== ================================================= + 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 + ========= ===== ================================================= + +The imm field encodes the width of the swap operations. The following widths +are supported: 16, 32 and 64. + +Examples: + +``BPF_ALU | BPF_TO_LE | BPF_END`` with imm = 16 means:: + + dst_reg = htole16(dst_reg) + +``BPF_ALU | BPF_TO_BE | BPF_END`` with imm = 64 means:: + + dst_reg = htobe64(dst_reg) + +``BPF_FROM_LE`` and ``BPF_FROM_BE`` exist as aliases for ``BPF_TO_LE`` and +``BPF_TO_LE`` respetively. + + Jump instructions ----------------- |