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bpf, doc: Improve wording of docs 

The phrase "dividing -1" is one I find confusing.  E.g.,
"INT_MIN dividing -1" sounds like "-1 / INT_MIN" rather than the inverse.
"divided by" instead of "dividing" assuming the inverse is meant.

Signed-off-by: Eslam Khafagy <eslam.medhat1993@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250607222434.227890-1-eslam.medhat1993@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Eslam Khafagy 2025-06-08 01:24:25 +03:00 committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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@ -350,8 +350,8 @@ Underflow and overflow are allowed during arithmetic operations, meaning
the 64-bit or 32-bit value will wrap. If BPF program execution would
result in division by zero, the destination register is instead set to zero.
Otherwise, for ``ALU64``, if execution would result in ``LLONG_MIN``
dividing -1, the destination register is instead set to ``LLONG_MIN``. For
``ALU``, if execution would result in ``INT_MIN`` dividing -1, the
divided by -1, the destination register is instead set to ``LLONG_MIN``. For
``ALU``, if execution would result in ``INT_MIN`` divided by -1, the
destination register is instead set to ``INT_MIN``.
If execution would result in modulo by zero, for ``ALU64`` the value of