Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] selftests: bpf: Add a new test for bare tracepoints

[Jean-Philippe Brucker]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:21:31AM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote:
> On 01/12/21 12:07, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > > > >         $ sudo ./test_progs -v -t module_attach
> > > >
> > > > use -vv when debugging stuff like that with test_progs, it will output
> > > > libbpf detailed logs, that often are very helpful
> > >
> > > I tried that but it didn't help me. Full output is here
> > >
> > >         https://paste.debian.net/1180846
> > >
> > 
> > It did help a bit for me to make sure that you have bpf_testmod
> > properly loaded and its BTF was found, so the problem is somewhere
> > else. Also, given load succeeded and attach failed with OPNOTSUPP, I
> > suspect you are missing some of FTRACE configs, which seems to be
> > missing from selftests's config as well. Check that you have
> > CONFIG_FTRACE=y and CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y, and you might need some
> > more. See [0] for a real config we are using to run all tests in
> > libbpf CI. If you figure out what you were missing, please also
> > contribute a patch to selftests' config.
> > 
> >   [0] https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/blob/master/travis-ci/vmtest/configs/latest.config
> 
> Yeah that occurred to me too. I do have all necessary FTRACE options enabled,
> including DYNAMIC_FTRACE. I think I did try enabling fault injection too just
> in case. I have CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION=y and CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION=y.

Could it come from lack of fentry support on arm64 (or are you testing on
x86?) Since the arm64 JIT doesn't have trampoline support at the moment, a
lot of bpf selftests fail with ENOTSUPP.

Thanks,
Jean