An eBPF overview, part 2: Machine & bytecode | Linux Today

An eBPF overview, part 2: Machine & bytecode

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Adrian Ratiu
Apr 17, 2019

In part 2 of this blog series, we take a closer look at the eBPF VM registers and instruction set, we learn how eBPF-accessible kernel functions are called from bytecode and how they are defined via a syscall-like special purpouse API by the core kernel.

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Adrian Ratiu

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