Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Drop redundant CONT_JMP alias

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 2:05 AM Tianci Cao <ziye@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Historically, the classic BPF interpreter distinguished between taken
> conditional branches and fall-through paths by using CONT_JMP and CONT,
> respectively.
>
> After the interpreter was migrated from net/core/filter.c to
> kernel/bpf/core.c, this naming split remained as a historical artifact.
> However, both macros have long expanded to the exact same sequence:
> "{ insn++; goto select_insn; }".

It was like this for years and can stay as-is for historical reasons.

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