Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 05/14] bpf: Rename BPF_XADD and prepare to encode other atomics in .imm

From: Yonghong Song
Date: Thu Dec 03 2020 - 23:51:29 EST




On 12/3/20 8:02 AM, Brendan Jackman wrote:
A subsequent patch will add additional atomic operations. These new
operations will use the same opcode field as the existing XADD, with
the immediate discriminating different operations.

In preparation, rename the instruction mode BPF_ATOMIC and start
calling the zero immediate BPF_ADD.

This is possible (doesn't break existing valid BPF progs) because the
immediate field is currently reserved MBZ and BPF_ADD is zero.

All uses are removed from the tree but the BPF_XADD definition is
kept around to avoid breaking builds for people including kernel
headers.

Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>

Change-Id: Ib78f54acba37f7196cbf6c35ffa1c40805cb0d87

As pointed by Andrii earlier, this 'Change-Id' is weird. I didn't
see it in other submitted patches.