RFC 9669
BPF Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), October 2024
- File formats:
- Also available: XML file for editing
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Author:
- D. Thaler, Ed.
- Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- bpf (int)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC9669
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Abstract
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).
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.