On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 5:45 PM Daniel T. Lee danieltimlee@gmail.com wrote:
The BPF tracing infrastructure has undergone significant evolution, leading to the introduction of more robust and efficient APIs. However, some of the existing tests in the samples/bpf directory have not kept pace with these developments. These outdated tests not only create confusion among users but also increase maintenance overhead.
For starter, this patchset focuses on cleaning up outdated 'tracing' related tests within the BPF testing framework. The goal is to modernize and streamline selftests by removing obsolete tests and migrating necessaries to more appropriate locations.
Daniel T. Lee (3): selftests/bpf: migrate tracepoint overhead test to prog_tests selftests/bpf: add rename tracepoint bench test samples/bpf: remove obsolete tracing related tests
We already have tracepoint-specific benchmark (see benchs/bench_trigger.c), try `./bench trig-tp` (it will pretty recent kernel due to reliance on bpf_modify_return_test_tp() kfunc).
So maybe instead of adding code to selftests, let's just remove it from both samples/bpf and prog_tests' test_overhead? Either way test_overhead isn't very representative anymore, given big chunk of its overhead is in write() syscall?
samples/bpf/Makefile | 12 - samples/bpf/test_overhead_kprobe.bpf.c | 41 ---- samples/bpf/test_overhead_raw_tp.bpf.c | 17 -- samples/bpf/test_overhead_tp.bpf.c | 23 -- samples/bpf/test_overhead_user.c | 225 ------------------ samples/bpf/test_override_return.sh | 16 -- samples/bpf/test_probe_write_user.bpf.c | 52 ---- samples/bpf/test_probe_write_user_user.c | 108 --------- samples/bpf/tracex7.bpf.c | 15 -- samples/bpf/tracex7_user.c | 56 ----- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench.c | 2 + .../selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_rename.c | 16 ++ .../selftests/bpf/benchs/run_bench_rename.sh | 2 +- .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_overhead.c | 14 +- .../selftests/bpf/progs/test_overhead.c | 11 +- 15 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 571 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/test_overhead_kprobe.bpf.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/test_overhead_raw_tp.bpf.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/test_overhead_tp.bpf.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/test_overhead_user.c delete mode 100755 samples/bpf/test_override_return.sh delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/test_probe_write_user.bpf.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/test_probe_write_user_user.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/tracex7.bpf.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/tracex7_user.c
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