Re: [RFC] Expose request_module via syscall

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 11:16 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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

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>   Luis