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PROPOSED STANDARD

Author:

D. Thaler, Ed.

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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 commonlyreferred to as BPF, is a technology with origins in the Linux kernelthat can run untrusted programs in a privileged context such as anoperating system kernel. This document specifies the BPF instructionset architecture (ISA).

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.