linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 bpf-nxt] Documentation/bpf: Add heading and example for extensions in filter.rst

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Message-Id: <20210712173723.1597-1-royujjal@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 12 Jul 2021 23:07:23 +0530
From:   "Roy, UjjaL" <royujjal@...il.com>
To:     Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
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        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
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        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 bpf-nxt] Documentation/bpf: Add heading and example for extensions in filter.rst

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/bpf/

Add new heading for extensions to make it more readable. Also, add one
more example of filtering interface index for better understanding.

Signed-off-by: Roy, UjjaL <royujjal@...il.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
---
 Documentation/networking/filter.rst | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.rst b/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
index 3e2221f4abe4..5f13905b12e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
@@ -320,13 +320,6 @@ Examples for low-level BPF:
   ret #-1
   drop: ret #0
 
-**(Accelerated) VLAN w/ id 10**::
-
-  ld vlan_tci
-  jneq #10, drop
-  ret #-1
-  drop: ret #0
-
 **icmp random packet sampling, 1 in 4**::
 
   ldh [12]
@@ -358,6 +351,22 @@ Examples for low-level BPF:
   bad: ret #0             /* SECCOMP_RET_KILL_THREAD */
   good: ret #0x7fff0000   /* SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW */
 
+Examples for low-level BPF extension:
+
+**Packet for interface index 13**::
+
+  ld ifidx
+  jneq #13, drop
+  ret #-1
+  drop: ret #0
+
+**(Accelerated) VLAN w/ id 10**::
+
+  ld vlan_tci
+  jneq #10, drop
+  ret #-1
+  drop: ret #0
+
 The above example code can be placed into a file (here called "foo"), and
 then be passed to the bpf_asm tool for generating opcodes, output that xt_bpf
 and cls_bpf understands and can directly be loaded with. Example with above
-- 
2.17.1