From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v5 00/17] Introduce eBPF support for HID devices
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 12:43:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee0p951b.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO-hwJL4Pj4JaRquoXD1AtegcKnh22_T0Z0VY_peZ8FRko3kZw@mail.gmail.com>
Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:39 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:20:35AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> > > are written using a hip new VM?
>> >
>> > Ugh, don't mention UDI, that's a bad flashback...
>>
>> But that is very much what we are doing here.
>>
>> > I thought the goal here was to move a lot of the quirk handling and
>> > "fixup the broken HID decriptors in this device" out of kernel .c code
>> > and into BPF code instead, which this patchset would allow.
>
> Yes, quirks are a big motivation for this work. Right now half of the
> HID drivers are less than 100 lines of code, and are just trivial
> fixes (one byte in the report descriptor, one key mapping, etc...).
> Using eBPF for those would simplify the process from the user point of
> view: you drop a "firmware fix" as an eBPF program in your system and
> you can continue working on your existing kernel.
How do you envision those BPF programs living, and how would they be
distributed? (In-tree / out of tree?)
-Toke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-19 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-18 20:59 [PATCH bpf-next v5 00/17] Introduce eBPF support for HID devices Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 01/17] bpf/btf: also allow kfunc in tracing and syscall programs Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-21 2:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 02/17] bpf/verifier: allow kfunc to return an allocated mem Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 21:59 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2022-05-19 12:05 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-19 12:40 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 03/17] bpf: prepare for more bpf syscall to be used from kernel and user space Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 04/17] libbpf: add map_get_fd_by_id and map_delete_elem in light skeleton Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 05/17] HID: core: store the unique system identifier in hid_device Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 06/17] HID: export hid_report_type to uapi Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 07/17] HID: initial BPF implementation Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 08/17] selftests/bpf: add tests for the HID-bpf initial implementation Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 09/17] HID: bpf: allocate data memory for device_event BPF programs Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 23:13 ` kernel test robot
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 10/17] selftests/bpf/hid: add test to change the report size Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 11/17] HID: bpf: introduce hid_hw_request() Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 12/17] selftests/bpf: add tests for bpf_hid_hw_request Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 22:20 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2022-05-19 12:12 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-19 12:51 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2022-05-19 13:13 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-19 13:44 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2022-05-19 15:47 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 13/17] HID: bpf: allow to change the report descriptor Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-21 2:46 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 14/17] selftests/bpf: add report descriptor fixup tests Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 15/17] samples/bpf: add new hid_mouse example Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 16/17] selftests/bpf: Add a test for BPF_F_INSERT_HEAD Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-18 20:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 17/17] Documentation: add HID-BPF docs Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-19 8:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 00/17] Introduce eBPF support for HID devices Christoph Hellwig
2022-05-19 8:20 ` Greg KH
2022-05-19 8:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-05-19 10:20 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-19 10:43 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2022-05-19 11:56 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-21 0:18 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-05-19 10:32 ` Greg KH
2022-05-19 11:46 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2022-05-21 2:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2022-05-27 7:26 ` Tero Kristo
2022-05-30 15:49 ` Benjamin Tissoires
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