Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] eBFP for block devices

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Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Omar,
>
> and another topic which came up during discussion yesterday:
>
> eBPF for block devices
> It would be useful to enable eBPF for block devices, such that we could
> do things like filtering bios on bio type, do error injection by 
> modifying the bio result etc.
> This topic should be around how it could be implemented and what
> additional use-cases could be supported.

Cc'ing Khazhy since Google might have some applications for this to
filter IOs based on the blocks being accessed, in the context of
safeguarding specific regions from accidental overwrites / application
error.

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi



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