linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH bpf] bpf, docs: Fix the description of 'src' in ALU instructions

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Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 08:33:55 -0600
From: dthaler1968@...glemail.com
To: "'Puranjay Mohan'" <puranjay@...nel.org>,
	"'David Vernet'" <void@...ifault.com>,
	"'Alexei Starovoitov'" <ast@...nel.org>,
	"'Daniel Borkmann'" <daniel@...earbox.net>,
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	"'Jiri Olsa'" <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	"'Jonathan Corbet'" <corbet@....net>,
	"'Dave Thaler'" <dthaler1968@...glemail.com>,
	"'Will Hawkins'" <hawkinsw@....cr>,
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Cc: <puranjay12@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH bpf] bpf, docs: Fix the description of 'src' in ALU instructions

Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@...nel.org> wrote: 
> An ALU instruction's source operand can be the value in the source
register or the
> 32-bit immediate value encoded in the instruction. This is controlled by
the 's' bit of
> the 'opcode'.
> 
> The current description explicitly uses the phrase 'value of the source
register'
> when defining the meaning of 'src'.
> 
> Change the description to use 'source operand' in place of 'value of the
source
> register'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Dave Thaler <dthaler1968@...il.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst
> b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst
> index a5ab00ac0b14..2e17b365388e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst
> @@ -292,8 +292,9 @@ Arithmetic instructions  ``ALU`` uses 32-bit wide
> operands while ``ALU64`` uses 64-bit wide operands for  otherwise
identical
> operations. ``ALU64`` instructions belong to the
>  base64 conformance group unless noted otherwise.
> -The 'code' field encodes the operation as below, where 'src' and 'dst'
refer -to the
> values of the source and destination registers, respectively.
> +The 'code' field encodes the operation as below, where 'src' refers to
> +the the source operand and 'dst' refers to the value of the destination
> +register.
> 
>  =====  =====  =======
> ==========================================================
>  name   code   offset   description
> --
> 2.40.1