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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>
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Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst

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it more complicated to support on arm64 and other archs. Also it
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needs div-by-zero runtime check.
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Q: Why there is no BPF_SDIV for signed divide operation?
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A: Because it would be rarely used. llvm errors in such case and
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prints a suggestion to use unsigned divide instead.
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Q: Why BPF has implicit prologue and epilogue?
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A: Because architectures like sparc have register windows and in general

Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst

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The 'code' field encodes the operation as below, where 'src' and 'dst' refer
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to the values of the source and destination registers, respectively.
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======== ===== ==========================================================
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code value description
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======== ===== ==========================================================
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BPF_ADD 0x00 dst += src
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BPF_SUB 0x10 dst -= src
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BPF_MUL 0x20 dst \*= src
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BPF_DIV 0x30 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst / src) : 0
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BPF_OR 0x40 dst \|= src
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BPF_AND 0x50 dst &= src
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BPF_LSH 0x60 dst <<= (src & mask)
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BPF_RSH 0x70 dst >>= (src & mask)
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BPF_NEG 0x80 dst = -dst
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BPF_MOD 0x90 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst % src) : dst
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BPF_XOR 0xa0 dst ^= src
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BPF_MOV 0xb0 dst = src
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BPF_ARSH 0xc0 sign extending dst >>= (src & mask)
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BPF_END 0xd0 byte swap operations (see `Byte swap instructions`_ below)
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======== ===== ==========================================================
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======== ===== ======= ==========================================================
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code value offset description
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======== ===== ======= ==========================================================
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BPF_ADD 0x00 0 dst += src
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BPF_SUB 0x10 0 dst -= src
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BPF_MUL 0x20 0 dst \*= src
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BPF_DIV 0x30 0 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst / src) : 0
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BPF_SDIV 0x30 1 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst s/ src) : 0
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BPF_OR 0x40 0 dst \|= src
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BPF_AND 0x50 0 dst &= src
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BPF_LSH 0x60 0 dst <<= (src & mask)
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BPF_RSH 0x70 0 dst >>= (src & mask)
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BPF_NEG 0x80 0 dst = -dst
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BPF_MOD 0x90 0 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst % src) : dst
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BPF_SMOD 0x90 1 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst s% src) : dst
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BPF_XOR 0xa0 0 dst ^= src
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BPF_MOV 0xb0 0 dst = src
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BPF_MOVSX 0xb0 8/16/32 dst = (s8,s16,s32)src
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BPF_ARSH 0xc0 0 sign extending dst >>= (src & mask)
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BPF_END 0xd0 0 byte swap operations (see `Byte swap instructions`_ below)
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======== ===== ============ ==========================================================
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Underflow and overflow are allowed during arithmetic operations, meaning
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the 64-bit or 32-bit value will wrap. If eBPF program execution would
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Also note that the division and modulo operations are unsigned. Thus, for
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``BPF_ALU``, 'imm' is first interpreted as an unsigned 32-bit value, whereas
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for ``BPF_ALU64``, 'imm' is first sign extended to 64 bits and the result
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interpreted as an unsigned 64-bit value. There are no instructions for
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signed division or modulo.
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Note that most instructions have instruction offset of 0. But three instructions
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(BPF_SDIV, BPF_SMOD, BPF_MOVSX) have non-zero offset.
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The devision and modulo operations support both unsigned and signed flavors.
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For unsigned operation (BPF_DIV and BPF_MOD), for ``BPF_ALU``, 'imm' is first
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interpreted as an unsigned 32-bit value, whereas for ``BPF_ALU64``, 'imm' is
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first sign extended to 64 bits and the result interpreted as an unsigned 64-bit
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value. For signed operation (BPF_SDIV and BPF_SMOD), for ``BPF_ALU``, 'imm' is
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interpreted as a signed value. For ``BPF_ALU64``, the 'imm' is sign extended
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from 32 to 64 and interpreted as a signed 64-bit value.
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Instruction BPF_MOVSX does move operation with sign extension.
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``BPF_ALU | MOVSX`` sign extendes 8-bit and 16-bit into 32-bit and upper 32-bit are zeroed.
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``BPF_ALU64 | MOVSX`` sign extends 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit into 64-bit.
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Shift operations use a mask of 0x3F (63) for 64-bit operations and 0x1F (31)
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The byte swap instructions use an instruction class of ``BPF_ALU`` and a 4-bit
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'code' field of ``BPF_END``.
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The byte swap instructions use instruction classes of ``BPF_ALU`` and ``BPF_ALU64``
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and a 4-bit 'code' field of ``BPF_END``.
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The 1-bit source operand field in the opcode is used to select what byte
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order the operation convert from or to:
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For ``BPF_ALU``, the 1-bit source operand field in the opcode is used to select what byte
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order the operation convert from or to. For ``BPF_ALU64``, the 1-bit source operand
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field in the opcode is not used and must be 0.
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BPF_TO_LE 0x00 convert between host byte order and little endian
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BPF_ALU BPF_TO_LE 0x00 convert between host byte order and little endian
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BPF_ALU BPF_TO_BE 0x08 convert between host byte order and big endian
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BPF_ALU64 BPF_TO_LE 0x00 do byte swap unconditionally
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BPF_MEM 0x60 regular load and store operations `Regular load and store operations`_
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BPF_MEMSX 0x80 sign-extension load operations `Sign-extension load operations`_
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