We had a few bug reports related to internal (and experimental) symbols issues during 26.07 development. See for example https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1957 or more recently https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1967.
To catch such issues earlier in the CI, this series proposes to run the unit tests through meson with the ABI reference unit test binary against the current ABI libraries and drivers. For this to work, some unit tests must be skipped (since meson may invoke the ABI reference code with tests that were unknown at the time). A few unit tests were directly dereferencing internal structures and are reworked so they use public APIs. Additionally, unit tests were allowed to use any internal API which has hidden a few issues (like a public API backed by internal symbols in the hash library). So disable the global ALLLOW_INTERNAL_API and move it to code explicitly requiring internal API, with the hope it will push us to have better API. The last patch contains a hack for now, where the cached ABI reference is force regenerated with a branch of mine where I backported the fixes of this series. -- David Marchand Changes since v1: - rebased, - dropped patch 1 on bbdev, - dropped dependency on net/ring in devargs test, - removed hacks from last patch, flushed excluded tests list, added test-null.sh check, David Marchand (9): bbdev: add per-queue statistics API hash: fix GFNI stubs export test: uninline helper for forking test/bonding: get MAC address with public API test/devargs: rely on net null driver test/vdev: find device with public API test: limit internal API usage ci: make ABI reference generation faster ci: run reference binaries against current ABI .ci/linux-build.sh | 40 ++++- .github/workflows/build.yml | 1 + MAINTAINERS | 1 + app/test-bbdev/test_bbdev_perf.c | 38 +--- app/test/meson.build | 7 +- app/test/process.c | 231 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ app/test/process.h | 228 +----------------------- app/test/test_devargs.c | 21 +-- app/test/test_external_mem.c | 2 + app/test/test_link_bonding.c | 35 ++-- app/test/test_malloc.c | 2 + app/test/test_mempool.c | 2 + app/test/test_pdump.c | 3 + app/test/test_pdump.h | 3 + app/test/test_vdev.c | 85 ++------- app/test/virtual_pmd.c | 2 + devtools/test-meson-builds.sh | 5 +- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.rst | 5 + lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev.c | 20 +++ lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev.h | 20 +++ lib/hash/rte_thash_gfni.c | 4 +- lib/hash/rte_thash_gfni.h | 2 - 22 files changed, 390 insertions(+), 367 deletions(-) create mode 100644 app/test/process.c -- 2.54.0
