Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/3] Maintain selftest configuration in-tree

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> On Jul 26, 2022, at 1:11 PM, Daniel Müller <deso@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 structured 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.
> 
> [0] https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/tree/20f03302350a4143825cedcbd210c4d7112c1898/travis-ci/vmtest/configs
> 
> ---
> Changelog:
> v2 -> v3:
> - removed seven more options from s390x configuration that overlapped with
>  pre-existing config
> v1 -> v2:
> - minimized imported kernel configs and made them build on top of existing
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config
>  - moved them directly into tools/testing/selftests/bpf/
> - sorted and cleaned up tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config
> - removed "selftests/bpf: Integrate vmtest configs" from patch set
> - removed 4.9 & 5.5 configs
> 
> Daniel Müller (3):
>  selftests/bpf: Sort configuration
>  selftests/bpf: Copy over libbpf configs
>  selftests/bpf: Adjust vmtest.sh to use local kernel configuration
> 
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/DENYLIST       |   6 +
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/DENYLIST.s390x |  67 ++++++
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config         | 101 ++++-----
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config.s390x   | 147 ++++++++++++
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config.x86_64  | 251 +++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/vmtest.sh      |  51 +++--
> 6 files changed, 554 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/DENYLIST
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/DENYLIST.s390x
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config.s390x
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config.x86_64
> 
> -- 
> 2.30.2
> 

Acked-by: Mykola Lysenko <mykolal@xxxxxx>




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