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[Changes from V4: - s/regs:16/regs:8 in figure.] [Changes from V3: - Back to src_reg and dst_reg, since they denote register numbers as opposed to the values stored in these registers.] [Changes from V2: - Use src and dst consistently in the document. - Use a more graphical depiction of the 128-bit instruction. - Remove `Where:' fragment. - Clarify that unused bits are reserved and shall be zeroed.] [Changes from V1: - Use rst literal blocks for figures. - Avoid using | in the basic instruction/pseudo instruction figure. - Rebased to today's bpf-next master branch.] This patch modifies instruction-set.rst so it documents the encoding of BPF instructions in terms of how the bytes are stored (be it in an ELF file or as bytes in a memory buffer to be loaded into the kernel or some other BPF consumer) as opposed to how the instruction looks like once loaded. This is hopefully easier to understand by implementors looking to generate and/or consume bytes conforming BPF instructions. The patch also clarifies that the unused bytes in a pseudo-instruction shall be cleared with zeros. Signed-off-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87h6v6i0da.fsf_-_@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.