The kernel internally transforms cBPF expressions into eBPF expressions and
executes the latter. Execution of them can be performed in an interpreter
or at setup time, they can be just-in-time compiled (JIT'ed) to run as
-native machine code. Currently, x86_64, ARM64, s390, ppc64 and sparc64
-architectures have eBPF JIT support, whereas PPC, SPARC, ARM and MIPS have
-cBPF, but did not (yet) switch to eBPF JIT support.
-
+native machine code.
+.PP
+Currently, the eBPF JIT compiler is available for the following architectures:
+.IP * 4
+x86_64 (since Linux 3.18)
+.PD 0
+.IP *
+arm64 (since Linux 3.18)
+.IP *
+s390 (since Linux 4.1)
+.IP *
+ppc64 (since Linux 4.8)
+.IP *
+sparc64 (since Linux 4.12)
+.IP *
+mips64 (since Linux 4.13)
+.IP *
+arm32 (since Linux 4.14)
+.IP *
+x86_32 (since Linux 4.18)
+.PD
+.PP
+Whereas the following architectures have cBPF, but did not (yet) switch to eBPF
+JIT support:
+.IP * 4
+ppc32
+.PD 0
+.IP *
+sparc32
+.IP *
+mips32
+.PD
+.PP
eBPF's instruction set has similar underlying principles as the cBPF
instruction set, it however is modelled closer to the underlying
architecture to better mimic native instruction sets with the aim to