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[67.170.74.237]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v127-20020a626185000000b006ead1509847sm8448284pfb.216.2024.04.22.12.09.46 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:09:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Thaler X-Google-Original-From: Dave Thaler To: bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: bpf@ietf.org, Dave Thaler Subject: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, docs: Add introduction for use in the ISA Internet Draft Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:09:42 -0700 Message-Id: <20240422190942.24658-1-dthaler1968@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.40.1 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: bpf@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Patchwork-Delegate: bpf@iogearbox.net 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 Acked-by: David Vernet --- Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst index d03d90afb..b44bdacd0 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 =========================