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| author | Dave Thaler <dthaler1968@googlemail.com> | 2024-04-22 12:09:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2024-04-25 19:15:21 -0700 |
| commit | e51b907d40329d4b4517a155e0bc0bf593d6767d (patch) | |
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bpf, docs: Add introduction for use in the ISA Internet Draft
The proposed intro paragraph text is derived from the first paragraph
of the IETF BPF WG charter at https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/bpf/about/
Signed-off-by: Dave Thaler <dthaler1968@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240422190942.24658-1-dthaler1968@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst index d03d90afbd7d..b44bdacd0195 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst @@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ BPF Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) ====================================== -This document specifies the BPF instruction set architecture (ISA). +eBPF (which is no longer an acronym for anything), also commonly +referred to as BPF, is a technology with origins in the Linux kernel +that can run untrusted programs in a privileged context such as an +operating system kernel. This document specifies the BPF instruction +set architecture (ISA). Documentation conventions ========================= |