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From: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	kernel-team@fb.com, Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>,
	Dave Thaler <dthaler1968@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next] [docs/bpf] Improve documentation of 64-bit immediate instructions
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 11:46:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240127194629.737589-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev> (raw)

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.

Acked-by: Dave Thaler <dthaler1968@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
---
 .../bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst         | 13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2024-01-27 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-27 19:46 Yonghong Song [this message]
2024-01-27 20:32 ` [PATCH bpf-next] [docs/bpf] Improve documentation of 64-bit immediate instructions Yonghong Song
2024-01-29 16:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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