netdev - Re: [PATCH] bpf: selftests: cleanup RLIMIT

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Message-Id: <F7652433-EED5-4F56-A062-06AFE4B08576@linux.dev>
Date:   Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:15:03 -0700
From:   Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc:     Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Martin Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        john fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: selftests: cleanup RLIMIT_MEMLOCK


> On Mar 21, 2022, at 5:13 PM, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 9:58 AM Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> On Mar 19, 2022, at 11:08 PM, Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Since we have alread switched to memcg-based memory accouting and control,
>>> we don't need RLIMIT_MEMLOCK any more.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
>>> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is still used in bpftool and libbpf, but it may be useful
>>> for backward compatibility, so I don't cleanup them.
>> 
>> Hi Yafang!
>> 
>> As I remember, we haven’t cleaned selftests up with the same logic: it’s nice to be able to run the same version of tests on older kernels.
>> 
> 
> It should be fine, at least for test_progs and test_progs-no_alu32.
> Libbpf now does this automatically if running in "libbpf 1.0" mode.

Didn’t know this, thanks! Do we link all tests with it?

> 
> Yafang, please make sure that all the test binaries you are cleaning
> up have libbpf_set_strict_mode(LIBBPF_STRICT_ALL) (test_progs does
> already). You might need to clean up some SEC() definitions, in case
> we still missed some non-conforming ones, though.

If so, no objections to the patch from my side.

Thank you!