Re: [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 00/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate partial builds across kernel configs

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

Date: Fri Jun 05 2026 - 17:33:56 EST


Hello:

This series was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (master)
by Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:02:49 -0300 you wrote:
> Currently the BPF selftests can only be built by using the minimum kernel
> configuration defined in tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config*. This poses a
> problem in distribution kernels that may have some of the flags disabled or
> set as module. For example, we have been running the tests regularly in
> openSUSE Tumbleweed [1] [2] but to work around this fact we created a
> special package [3] that build the tests against an auxiliary vmlinux with
> the BPF Kconfig. We keep a list of known issues that may happen due to,
> amongst other things, configuration mismatches [4] [5].
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [bpf-next,RESEND,v12,01/11] selftests/bpf: Add BPF_STRICT_BUILD toggle
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/a6850fa388f6
- [bpf-next,RESEND,v12,02/11] selftests/bpf: Fix test_kmods KDIR to honor O= and distro kernels
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/9779193e871b
- [bpf-next,RESEND,v12,03/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate BPF and skeleton generation failures
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/c476bdf27657
- [bpf-next,RESEND,v12,04/11] selftests/bpf: Avoid rebuilds when running emit_tests
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/a97bfc9aae07
- [bpf-next,RESEND,v12,05/11] selftests/bpf: Make skeleton headers order-only prerequisites of .test.d
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/5498e47741c8
- [bpf-next,RESEND,v12,06/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate test file compilation failures
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/9c4de137a9a5
- [bpf-next,RESEND,v12,07/11] selftests/bpf: Skip tests whose objects were not built
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/aeb73a9f301d
- [bpf-next,RESEND,v12,08/11] selftests/bpf: Allow test_progs to link with a partial object set
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/af490669fd33
- [bpf-next,RESEND,v12,09/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate benchmark build failures
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/f813a4d6877e
- [bpf-next,RESEND,v12,10/11] selftests/bpf: Provide weak definitions for cross-test functions
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/b85e63cb65f9
- [bpf-next,RESEND,v12,11/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate missing files during install
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/3ca6543464f8

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