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| BPF ABI Recommended Conventions and Guidelines v1.0 |
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| This is version 1.0 of an informational document containing recommended |
| conventions and guidelines for producing portable BPF program binaries. |
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| Registers and calling convention |
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| BPF has 10 general purpose registers and a read-only frame pointer register, |
| all of which are 64-bits wide. |
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| The BPF calling convention is defined as: |
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| * R0: return value from function calls, and exit value for BPF programs |
| * R1 - R5: arguments for function calls |
| * R6 - R9: callee saved registers that function calls will preserve |
| * R10: read-only frame pointer to access stack |
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| R0 - R5 are scratch registers and BPF programs needs to spill/fill them if |
| necessary across calls. |
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| The BPF program needs to store the return value into register R0 before doing an |
| ``EXIT``. |
