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As specified in the IETF BPF charter, the BPF working group has plans to add one or more informational documents that recommend conventions and guidelines for producing portable BPF program binaries. The instruction-set.rst document currently contains a "Registers and calling convention" subsection which dictates a calling convention that belongs in an ABI document, rather than an instruction set document. Let's move it to a new abi.rst document so we can clean it up. The abi.rst document will of course be significantly changed and expanded upon over time. For now, it's really just a placeholder which will contain ABI-specific language that doesn't belong in other documents. Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230828155948.123405-3-void@manifault.com
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BPF ABI Recommended Conventions and Guidelines v1.0
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This is version 1.0 of an informational document containing recommended
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conventions and guidelines for producing portable BPF program binaries.
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Registers and calling convention
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BPF has 10 general purpose registers and a read-only frame pointer register,
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all of which are 64-bits wide.
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The BPF calling convention is defined as:
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* R0: return value from function calls, and exit value for BPF programs
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* R1 - R5: arguments for function calls
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* R6 - R9: callee saved registers that function calls will preserve
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* R10: read-only frame pointer to access stack
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R0 - R5 are scratch registers and BPF programs needs to spill/fill them if
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necessary across calls.
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