[PATCH v2 05/10] selftests/bpf: Tolerate test file compilation failures
From: Ricardo B. Marlière
Date: Fri Apr 03 2026 - 11:01:27 EST
Individual test files may fail to compile when headers or kernel features
required by that test are absent. Currently this aborts the entire build.
Make the per-test compilation non-fatal: remove the output object on
failure and print a SKIP-TEST marker to stderr. Guard the BTFIDS
post-processing step so it is skipped when the object file is absent.
The linker step will later ignore absent objects, allowing the remaining
tests to build and run.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <rbm@xxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
index 72f576a8236a..6a3835a58f87 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile
@@ -688,11 +688,14 @@ $(TRUNNER_TEST_OBJS): $(TRUNNER_OUTPUT)/%.test.o: \
$(TRUNNER_TESTS_DIR)/%.c \
| $(TRUNNER_OUTPUT)/%.test.d
$$(call msg,TEST-OBJ,$(TRUNNER_BINARY),$$@)
- $(Q)cd $$(@D) && $$(CC) -I. $$(CFLAGS) -MMD -MT $$@ -c $(CURDIR)/$$< $$(LDLIBS) -o $$(@F)
+ $(Q)cd $$(@D) && $$(CC) -I. $$(CFLAGS) -MMD -MT $$@ -c $(CURDIR)/$$< $$(LDLIBS) -o $$(@F) || \
+ ($(RM) $$(@F); printf ' %-12s %s\n' 'SKIP-TEST' '$$(notdir $$@)' 1>&2)
$$(if $$(TEST_NEEDS_BTFIDS), \
+ if [ -f $$@ ]; then \
$$(call msg,BTFIDS,$(TRUNNER_BINARY),$$@) \
$(RESOLVE_BTFIDS) --btf $(TRUNNER_OUTPUT)/btf_data.bpf.o $$@; \
- $(RESOLVE_BTFIDS) --patch_btfids $$@.BTF_ids $$@)
+ $(RESOLVE_BTFIDS) --patch_btfids $$@.BTF_ids $$@; \
+ fi)
$(TRUNNER_TEST_OBJS:.o=.d): $(TRUNNER_OUTPUT)/%.test.d: \
$(TRUNNER_TESTS_DIR)/%.c \
--
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