bpf: Add BPF_FETCH field / create atomic_fetch_add instruction

The BPF_FETCH field can be set in bpf_insn.imm, for BPF_ATOMIC instructions, in order to have the previous value of the atomically-modified memory location loaded into the src register after an atomic op is carried out.

Brendan Jackman committed 5 years ago

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include/uapi/linux/bpf.h+3−0

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44	44	#define BPF_CALL 0x80 /* function call */
45	45	#define BPF_EXIT 0x90 /* function return */
46	46
	47	+/* atomic op type fields (stored in immediate) */
	48	+#define BPF_FETCH 0x01 /* fetch previous value into src reg */
	49	+
47	50	/* Register numbers */
48	51	enum {
49	52	BPF_REG_0 = 0,