netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v5 01/17] bpf/btf: also allow kfunc in tracing and syscall programs

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Date:   Fri, 20 May 2022 19:34:17 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@...com>,
        Joe Stringer <joe@...ium.io>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v5 01/17] bpf/btf: also allow kfunc in tracing
 and syscall programs

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 1:59 PM Benjamin Tissoires
<benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Tracing and syscall BPF program types are very convenient to add BPF
> capabilities to subsystem otherwise not BPF capable.
> When we add kfuncs capabilities to those program types, we can add
> BPF features to subsystems without having to touch BPF core.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>

Applied this patch, since Yosry's work needs it too.