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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: "Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas@t-8ch.de>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
	"Christian Brauner" <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
	"Linux API" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jessica Yu" <jeyu@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Expose request_module via syscall
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:36:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrX9keVFxEZYUkKr7_dWb9Ubo9q4E2aTY_ZOWGSHyRph8g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YUi95tFDWS7oceYP@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 11:16 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 04:51:19PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

> > > Do you mean it literally invokes /sbin/modprobe?  If so, hooking this
> > > at /sbin/modprobe and calling out to the container manager seems like
> > > a decent solution.
> >
> > Yes it does. Thanks for the idea, I'll see how this works out.
>
> Would documentation guiding you in that way have helped? If so
> I welcome a patch that does just that.

If someone wants to make this classy, we should probably have the
container counterpart of a standardized paravirt interface.  There
should be a way for a container to, in a runtime-agnostic way, issue
requests to its manager, and requesting a module by (name, Linux
kernel version for which that name makes sense) seems like an
excellent use of such an interface.

--Andy

>
>   Luis

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-20 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-15 15:49 [RFC] Expose request_module via syscall Thomas Weißschuh
2021-09-15 16:02 ` Greg KH
2021-09-15 16:28   ` Thomas Weißschuh
2021-09-15 16:47 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-16  9:27   ` Christian Brauner
2021-09-18 18:47     ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-19  7:56       ` Thomas Weißschuh
2021-09-19 14:37         ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-20 14:51           ` Thomas Weißschuh
2021-09-20 16:59             ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-20 18:36               ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2021-09-22 12:25                 ` Christian Brauner
2021-09-22 15:34                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-22 15:52                     ` Christian Brauner
2021-09-22 20:06                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-24 13:19                         ` Christian Brauner
2021-09-24 23:04                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-10-24  9:38         ` Thomas Weißschuh

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