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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-24 08:46:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-24 08:46:03 -0700 |
| commit | cf9610f9116d55c5a66ef9f1faecacabd93a9322 (patch) | |
| tree | 757a3d280760c654767631cab5ad8af2d86d1848 /Documentation/bpf/linux-notes.rst | |
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Merge tag 'pinctrl-v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrlgrafted
Pull pin control updates from Linus Walleij:
"Core changes:
- Use the non-blocking mux_state_try_select() in the generic MUX pin
control back-end
- Free pin maps on pinctrl_generic_to_map() failure in the core
helpers
New hardware pin control:
- Qualcomm Maili TLMM SoC, PMG1110 PMIC, and Eliza LPASS LPI TLMM SoC
(this is for the low power audio, LPASS = Low Power Audio SubSystem
portions)
- Upboard support on top of the Intel pin controller
- Apple T6030 and T6031 support (just compatible strings)
- Samsung Exynos 8855 SoC
- Mediatek MT6858 SoC
- Rockchip RK3308B and RV1106 SoCs
- Airoha EN7523 and AN7563 SoCs
Improvements:
- Qualcomm TLMM GPIOs are unconditionally marked as wakeup capable
- Qualcomm improvements on top of the Qualcomm PDC (power domain
controller) irqchip improvements from tglx:s tree
- Qualcomm IPQ806x and IPQ9650 non-urgent pin grop fixups
- The NPCM8xx driver has been put into shape fixing many pin and
group definitions
- Some non-urgent Tegra 264 pin assignments are fixed up
- Some non-urgent fixups to Airoha AN7581 and AN7583 registers and
pin assignments, missing features etc"
* tag 'pinctrl-v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl: (130 commits)
dt-bindings: pinctrl: Convert TI DA850 pupd to DT schema
pinctrl: meson: sync some modify from A4
pinctrl: meson: a4: Add input enable pin configuration
pinctrl: realtek: rtd1625: remove unused group name spdif_sel
pinctrl: realtek: rtd1625: fix base_bit for VE4 GPIO 13
dt-bindings: pinctrl: microchip,pic32mzda-pinctrl: Convert to DT schema
Revert "Merge branch 'ib-rsk7204' into devel"
pinctrl: rockchip: Add RV1106 pinctrl support
dt-bindings: pinctrl: rockchip: Add RV1106 compatible
pinctrl: rockchip: Decode drive strength in the get function
pinctrl: fix PINCTRL_GENERIC_MUX not always being selectable
pinctrl: airoha: add support of an7563 SoC
dt-bindings: pinctrl: airoha: add support of an7563 pin controller
pinctrl: airoha: try to find chip scu node by phandle first
pinctrl: airoha: add support of en7523 SoC
dt-bindings: pinctrl: airoha: add support of en7523 pin controller
pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add support for olt pinmux
pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add support for pon_alt pinmux
pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add support for npu_uart pinmux
dt-bindings: pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add missed features
...
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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/linux-notes.rst b/Documentation/bpf/linux-notes.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..00d2693de --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/bpf/linux-notes.rst @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +.. contents:: +.. sectnum:: + +========================== +Linux implementation notes +========================== + +This document provides more details specific to the Linux kernel implementation of the eBPF instruction set. + +Byte swap instructions +====================== + +``BPF_FROM_LE`` and ``BPF_FROM_BE`` exist as aliases for ``BPF_TO_LE`` and ``BPF_TO_BE`` respectively. + +Jump instructions +================= + +``BPF_CALL | BPF_X | BPF_JMP`` (0x8d), where the helper function +integer would be read from a specified register, is not currently supported +by the verifier. Any programs with this instruction will fail to load +until such support is added. + +Maps +==== + +Linux only supports the 'map_val(map)' operation on array maps with a single element. + +Linux uses an fd_array to store maps associated with a BPF program. Thus, +map_by_idx(imm) uses the fd at that index in the array. + +Variables +========= + +The following 64-bit immediate instruction specifies that a variable address, +which corresponds to some integer stored in the 'imm' field, should be loaded: + +========================= ====== === ========================================= =========== ============== +opcode construction opcode src pseudocode imm type dst type +========================= ====== === ========================================= =========== ============== +BPF_IMM | BPF_DW | BPF_LD 0x18 0x3 dst = var_addr(imm) variable id data pointer +========================= ====== === ========================================= =========== ============== + +On Linux, this integer is a BTF ID. + +Legacy BPF Packet access instructions +===================================== + +As mentioned in the `ISA standard documentation +<instruction-set.html#legacy-bpf-packet-access-instructions>`_, +Linux has special eBPF instructions for access to packet data that have been +carried over from classic BPF to retain the performance of legacy socket +filters running in the eBPF interpreter. + +The instructions come in two forms: ``BPF_ABS | <size> | BPF_LD`` and +``BPF_IND | <size> | BPF_LD``. + +These instructions are used to access packet data and can only be used when +the program context is a pointer to a networking packet. ``BPF_ABS`` +accesses packet data at an absolute offset specified by the immediate data +and ``BPF_IND`` access packet data at an offset that includes the value of +a register in addition to the immediate data. + +These instructions have seven implicit operands: + +* Register R6 is an implicit input that must contain a pointer to a + struct sk_buff. +* Register R0 is an implicit output which contains the data fetched from + the packet. +* Registers R1-R5 are scratch registers that are clobbered by the + instruction. + +These instructions have an implicit program exit condition as well. If an +eBPF program attempts access data beyond the packet boundary, the +program execution will be aborted. + +``BPF_ABS | BPF_W | BPF_LD`` (0x20) means:: + + R0 = ntohl(*(u32 *) ((struct sk_buff *) R6->data + imm)) + +where ``ntohl()`` converts a 32-bit value from network byte order to host byte order. + +``BPF_IND | BPF_W | BPF_LD`` (0x40) means:: + + R0 = ntohl(*(u32 *) ((struct sk_buff *) R6->data + src + imm)) |
