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Commit cb601848 authored by Eduard Zingerman's avatar Eduard Zingerman Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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docs/bpf: Add description of register liveness tracking algorithm

This is a followup for [1], adds an overview for the register liveness
tracking, covers the following points:
- why register liveness tracking is useful;
- how register parentage chains are constructed;
- how liveness marks are applied using the parentage chains.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQKs2i1iuZ5SUGuJtxWVfGYR9kDgYKhq3rNV+kBLQCu7rA@mail.gmail.com/



Signed-off-by: default avatarEduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEdward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230202125713.821931-2-eddyz87@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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