As discussed at LSF/MM/BPF, the sentence about using R0 for returning
values from calls is part of the calling convention and belongs in
abi.rst. Any further additions or clarifications to this text are left
for future patches on abi.rst. The current patch is simply to unblock
progression of instruction-set.rst to a standard.
In contrast, the restriction of register numbers to the range 0-10
is untouched, left in the instruction-set.rst definition of the
src_reg and dst_reg fields.
Signed-off-by: Dave Thaler <dthaler1968@googlemail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240517153445.3914-1-dthaler1968@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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
