Manually generate vmlinux.h based on latest.config to be used for non-latest
selftest build. This will keep bpftool and newest selftests builds succeeding,
while at runtime blacklist will skip them.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Build latest pahole from sources and not rely on hacky Ubuntu repository
approach.
Also enable tests for latest kernel that rely on pahole 1.16.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Run kernel selftests in vmtest with the goal to test libbpf backward
compatibility with older kernels.
The list of kernels should be specified in .travis.yml config in
`jobs` section, e.g. KERNEL=5.5.0.
Enlisted kernel releases
- 5.5.0 # built from main
- 5.5.0-rc6 # built from bpf-next
- LATEST
The kernel specified as 'LATEST' in .travis.yml is built from bpf-next kernel
tree, the rest of the kernels are downloaded from the specified in INDEX file.
The kernel sources from bpf-next are manually patched with [1] from bpf tree to
fix ranqslower build. This workaround should be removed after the patch is merged
from bpf to bpf-next tree.
Due to kernel sources being checked out the duration of the LATEST kernel test is
~30m.
bpf selftests are built from tools/testing/selftests/bpf/ of bpf-next tree with
HEAD revision set to CHECKPOINT-COMMIT specified in libbpf so selftests and
libbpf are in sync.
Currently only programs are tested with test_progs program, test_maps and
test_verifier should follow.
test_progs are run with blacklist required due to:
- some features, e.g. fentry/fexit are not supported in older kernels
- environment limitations, e.g an absence of the recent pahole in Debian
- incomplete disk image
The blacklist is passed to test_progs with -b option as specified in [2]
patch set.
Most of the preceeding tests are disabled due to incomplete disk image currenly
lacking proper networking settings.
For the LATEST kernel fome fentry/fexit tests are disabled due to pahole v1.16
is not abailible in Debian yet.
Next steps are resolving issues with blacklisted tests, enabling maps and
verifier testing, expanding the list of tested kernels.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/908498f794661c44dca54da9e09dc0c382df6fcb.1580425879.git.hex@fb.com/t.mbox.gz
[2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg625192.html
