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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst index 245b6defc298..eb0f234a8001 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst @@ -97,6 +97,28 @@ Definitions A: 10000110 B: 11111111 10000110 +Conformance groups +------------------ + +An implementation does not need to support all instructions specified in this +document (e.g., deprecated instructions). Instead, a number of conformance +groups are specified. An implementation must support the "basic" conformance +group and may support additional conformance groups, where supporting a +conformance group means it must support all instructions in that conformance +group. + +The use of named conformance groups enables interoperability between a runtime +that executes instructions, and tools as such compilers that generate +instructions for the runtime. Thus, capability discovery in terms of +conformance groups might be done manually by users or automatically by tools. + +Each conformance group has a short ASCII label (e.g., "basic") that +corresponds to a set of instructions that are mandatory. That is, each +instruction has one or more conformance groups of which it is a member. + +The "basic" conformance group includes all instructions defined in this +specification unless otherwise noted. + Instruction encoding ==================== @@ -610,4 +632,6 @@ Legacy BPF Packet access instructions BPF 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. +deprecated and should no longer be used. All legacy packet access +instructions belong to the "legacy" conformance group instead of the "basic" +conformance group. |