On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 06:02:48PM +0000, Daniel Müller wrote: > BPF selftests mandate certain kernel configuration options to be present in > order to pass. Currently the "reference" config files containing these options > are hosted in a separate repository [0]. From there they are picked up by the > BPF continuous integration system as well as the in-tree vmtest.sh helper > script, which allows for running tests in a VM-based setup locally. > > But it gets worse, as "BPF CI" is really two CI systems: one for libbpf > (mentioned above) and one for the bpf-next kernel repository (or more precisely: > family of repositories, as bpf-rc is using the system). As such, we have an > additional -- and slightly divergent -- copy of these configurations. > > This patch set proposes the merging of said configurations into this repository. > Doing so provides several benefits: > 1) the vmtest.sh script is now self-contained, no longer requiring to pull > configurations over the network > 2) we can have a single copy of these configurations, eliminating the > maintenance burden of keeping two versions in-sync > 3) the kernel tree is the place where most development happens, so it is the > most natural to adjust configurations as changes are proposed there, as > opposed to out-of-tree, where they would always remain an afterthought > > The patch set is structed in such a way that we first integrate the external > configuration [0] and then adjust the vmtest.sh script to pick up the local > configuration instead of reaching out to GitHub. Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx>
