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- ========================================
- eBPF Instruction Set Specification, v1.0
- ========================================
- This document specifies version 1.0 of the eBPF instruction set.
- Registers and calling convention
- ================================
- eBPF has 10 general purpose registers and a read-only frame pointer register,
- all of which are 64-bits wide.
- The eBPF calling convention is defined as:
- * R0: return value from function calls, and exit value for eBPF programs
- * R1 - R5: arguments for function calls
- * R6 - R9: callee saved registers that function calls will preserve
- * R10: read-only frame pointer to access stack
- R0 - R5 are scratch registers and eBPF programs needs to spill/fill them if
- necessary across calls.
- Instruction encoding
- ====================
- eBPF has two instruction encodings:
- * the basic instruction encoding, which uses 64 bits to encode an instruction
- * the wide instruction encoding, which appends a second 64-bit immediate value
- (imm64) after the basic instruction for a total of 128 bits.
- The basic instruction encoding looks as follows:
- ============= ======= =============== ==================== ============
- 32 bits (MSB) 16 bits 4 bits 4 bits 8 bits (LSB)
- ============= ======= =============== ==================== ============
- immediate offset source register destination register opcode
- ============= ======= =============== ==================== ============
- Note that most instructions do not use all of the fields.
- Unused fields shall be cleared to zero.
- Instruction classes
- -------------------
- The three LSB bits of the 'opcode' field store the instruction class:
- ========= ===== =============================== ===================================
- class value description reference
- ========= ===== =============================== ===================================
- BPF_LD 0x00 non-standard load operations `Load and store instructions`_
- BPF_LDX 0x01 load into register operations `Load and store instructions`_
- BPF_ST 0x02 store from immediate operations `Load and store instructions`_
- BPF_STX 0x03 store from register operations `Load and store instructions`_
- BPF_ALU 0x04 32-bit arithmetic operations `Arithmetic and jump instructions`_
- BPF_JMP 0x05 64-bit jump operations `Arithmetic and jump instructions`_
- BPF_JMP32 0x06 32-bit jump operations `Arithmetic and jump instructions`_
- BPF_ALU64 0x07 64-bit arithmetic operations `Arithmetic and jump instructions`_
- ========= ===== =============================== ===================================
- Arithmetic and jump instructions
- ================================
- For arithmetic and jump instructions (``BPF_ALU``, ``BPF_ALU64``, ``BPF_JMP`` and
- ``BPF_JMP32``), the 8-bit 'opcode' field is divided into three parts:
- ============== ====== =================
- 4 bits (MSB) 1 bit 3 bits (LSB)
- ============== ====== =================
- operation code source instruction class
- ============== ====== =================
- The 4th bit encodes the source operand:
- ====== ===== ========================================
- source value description
- ====== ===== ========================================
- BPF_K 0x00 use 32-bit immediate as source operand
- BPF_X 0x08 use 'src_reg' register as source operand
- ====== ===== ========================================
- The four MSB bits store the operation code.
- Arithmetic instructions
- -----------------------
- ``BPF_ALU`` uses 32-bit wide operands while ``BPF_ALU64`` uses 64-bit wide operands for
- otherwise identical operations.
- The 'code' field encodes the operation as below:
- ======== ===== ==========================================================
- code value description
- ======== ===== ==========================================================
- BPF_ADD 0x00 dst += src
- BPF_SUB 0x10 dst -= src
- BPF_MUL 0x20 dst \*= src
- BPF_DIV 0x30 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst / src) : 0
- BPF_OR 0x40 dst \|= src
- BPF_AND 0x50 dst &= src
- BPF_LSH 0x60 dst <<= src
- BPF_RSH 0x70 dst >>= src
- BPF_NEG 0x80 dst = ~src
- BPF_MOD 0x90 dst = (src != 0) ? (dst % src) : dst
- BPF_XOR 0xa0 dst ^= src
- BPF_MOV 0xb0 dst = src
- BPF_ARSH 0xc0 sign extending shift right
- BPF_END 0xd0 byte swap operations (see `Byte swap instructions`_ below)
- ======== ===== ==========================================================
- Underflow and overflow are allowed during arithmetic operations, meaning
- the 64-bit or 32-bit value will wrap. If eBPF program execution would
- result in division by zero, the destination register is instead set to zero.
- If execution would result in modulo by zero, for ``BPF_ALU64`` the value of
- the destination register is unchanged whereas for ``BPF_ALU`` the upper
- 32 bits of the destination register are zeroed.
- ``BPF_ADD | BPF_X | BPF_ALU`` means::
- dst_reg = (u32) dst_reg + (u32) src_reg;
- ``BPF_ADD | BPF_X | BPF_ALU64`` means::
- dst_reg = dst_reg + src_reg
- ``BPF_XOR | BPF_K | BPF_ALU`` means::
- src_reg = (u32) src_reg ^ (u32) imm32
- ``BPF_XOR | BPF_K | BPF_ALU64`` means::
- src_reg = src_reg ^ imm32
- Also note that the division and modulo operations are unsigned. Thus, for
- ``BPF_ALU``, 'imm' is first interpreted as an unsigned 32-bit value, whereas
- for ``BPF_ALU64``, 'imm' is first sign extended to 64 bits and the result
- interpreted as an unsigned 64-bit value. There are no instructions for
- signed division or modulo.
- Byte swap instructions
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The byte swap instructions use an instruction class of ``BPF_ALU`` and a 4-bit
- 'code' field of ``BPF_END``.
- The byte swap instructions operate on the destination register
- only and do not use a separate source register or immediate value.
- The 1-bit source operand field in the opcode is used to select what byte
- order the operation convert from or to:
- ========= ===== =================================================
- source value description
- ========= ===== =================================================
- BPF_TO_LE 0x00 convert between host byte order and little endian
- BPF_TO_BE 0x08 convert between host byte order and big endian
- ========= ===== =================================================
- The 'imm' field encodes the width of the swap operations. The following widths
- are supported: 16, 32 and 64.
- Examples:
- ``BPF_ALU | BPF_TO_LE | BPF_END`` with imm = 16 means::
- dst_reg = htole16(dst_reg)
- ``BPF_ALU | BPF_TO_BE | BPF_END`` with imm = 64 means::
- dst_reg = htobe64(dst_reg)
- Jump instructions
- -----------------
- ``BPF_JMP32`` uses 32-bit wide operands while ``BPF_JMP`` uses 64-bit wide operands for
- otherwise identical operations.
- The 'code' field encodes the operation as below:
- ======== ===== ========================= ============
- code value description notes
- ======== ===== ========================= ============
- BPF_JA 0x00 PC += off BPF_JMP only
- BPF_JEQ 0x10 PC += off if dst == src
- BPF_JGT 0x20 PC += off if dst > src unsigned
- BPF_JGE 0x30 PC += off if dst >= src unsigned
- BPF_JSET 0x40 PC += off if dst & src
- BPF_JNE 0x50 PC += off if dst != src
- BPF_JSGT 0x60 PC += off if dst > src signed
- BPF_JSGE 0x70 PC += off if dst >= src signed
- BPF_CALL 0x80 function call
- BPF_EXIT 0x90 function / program return BPF_JMP only
- BPF_JLT 0xa0 PC += off if dst < src unsigned
- BPF_JLE 0xb0 PC += off if dst <= src unsigned
- BPF_JSLT 0xc0 PC += off if dst < src signed
- BPF_JSLE 0xd0 PC += off if dst <= src signed
- ======== ===== ========================= ============
- The eBPF program needs to store the return value into register R0 before doing a
- BPF_EXIT.
- Load and store instructions
- ===========================
- For load and store instructions (``BPF_LD``, ``BPF_LDX``, ``BPF_ST``, and ``BPF_STX``), the
- 8-bit 'opcode' field is divided as:
- ============ ====== =================
- 3 bits (MSB) 2 bits 3 bits (LSB)
- ============ ====== =================
- mode size instruction class
- ============ ====== =================
- The mode modifier is one of:
- ============= ===== ==================================== =============
- mode modifier value description reference
- ============= ===== ==================================== =============
- BPF_IMM 0x00 64-bit immediate instructions `64-bit immediate instructions`_
- BPF_ABS 0x20 legacy BPF packet access (absolute) `Legacy BPF Packet access instructions`_
- BPF_IND 0x40 legacy BPF packet access (indirect) `Legacy BPF Packet access instructions`_
- BPF_MEM 0x60 regular load and store operations `Regular load and store operations`_
- BPF_ATOMIC 0xc0 atomic operations `Atomic operations`_
- ============= ===== ==================================== =============
- The size modifier is one of:
- ============= ===== =====================
- size modifier value description
- ============= ===== =====================
- BPF_W 0x00 word (4 bytes)
- BPF_H 0x08 half word (2 bytes)
- BPF_B 0x10 byte
- BPF_DW 0x18 double word (8 bytes)
- ============= ===== =====================
- Regular load and store operations
- ---------------------------------
- The ``BPF_MEM`` mode modifier is used to encode regular load and store
- instructions that transfer data between a register and memory.
- ``BPF_MEM | <size> | BPF_STX`` means::
- *(size *) (dst_reg + off) = src_reg
- ``BPF_MEM | <size> | BPF_ST`` means::
- *(size *) (dst_reg + off) = imm32
- ``BPF_MEM | <size> | BPF_LDX`` means::
- dst_reg = *(size *) (src_reg + off)
- Where size is one of: ``BPF_B``, ``BPF_H``, ``BPF_W``, or ``BPF_DW``.
- Atomic operations
- -----------------
- Atomic operations are operations that operate on memory and can not be
- interrupted or corrupted by other access to the same memory region
- by other eBPF programs or means outside of this specification.
- All atomic operations supported by eBPF are encoded as store operations
- that use the ``BPF_ATOMIC`` mode modifier as follows:
- * ``BPF_ATOMIC | BPF_W | BPF_STX`` for 32-bit operations
- * ``BPF_ATOMIC | BPF_DW | BPF_STX`` for 64-bit operations
- * 8-bit and 16-bit wide atomic operations are not supported.
- The 'imm' field is used to encode the actual atomic operation.
- Simple atomic operation use a subset of the values defined to encode
- arithmetic operations in the 'imm' field to encode the atomic operation:
- ======== ===== ===========
- imm value description
- ======== ===== ===========
- BPF_ADD 0x00 atomic add
- BPF_OR 0x40 atomic or
- BPF_AND 0x50 atomic and
- BPF_XOR 0xa0 atomic xor
- ======== ===== ===========
- ``BPF_ATOMIC | BPF_W | BPF_STX`` with 'imm' = BPF_ADD means::
- *(u32 *)(dst_reg + off16) += src_reg
- ``BPF_ATOMIC | BPF_DW | BPF_STX`` with 'imm' = BPF ADD means::
- *(u64 *)(dst_reg + off16) += src_reg
- In addition to the simple atomic operations, there also is a modifier and
- two complex atomic operations:
- =========== ================ ===========================
- imm value description
- =========== ================ ===========================
- BPF_FETCH 0x01 modifier: return old value
- BPF_XCHG 0xe0 | BPF_FETCH atomic exchange
- BPF_CMPXCHG 0xf0 | BPF_FETCH atomic compare and exchange
- =========== ================ ===========================
- The ``BPF_FETCH`` modifier is optional for simple atomic operations, and
- always set for the complex atomic operations. If the ``BPF_FETCH`` flag
- is set, then the operation also overwrites ``src_reg`` with the value that
- was in memory before it was modified.
- The ``BPF_XCHG`` operation atomically exchanges ``src_reg`` with the value
- addressed by ``dst_reg + off``.
- The ``BPF_CMPXCHG`` operation atomically compares the value addressed by
- ``dst_reg + off`` with ``R0``. If they match, the value addressed by
- ``dst_reg + off`` is replaced with ``src_reg``. In either case, the
- value that was at ``dst_reg + off`` before the operation is zero-extended
- and loaded back to ``R0``.
- 64-bit immediate instructions
- -----------------------------
- Instructions with the ``BPF_IMM`` 'mode' modifier use the wide instruction
- encoding for an extra imm64 value.
- There is currently only one such instruction.
- ``BPF_LD | BPF_DW | BPF_IMM`` means::
- dst_reg = imm64
- Legacy BPF Packet access instructions
- -------------------------------------
- eBPF previously introduced special instructions for access to packet data that were
- carried over from classic BPF. However, these instructions are
- deprecated and should no longer be used.
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