selftests/bpf: Switch perf_buffer test to tracepoint and skeleton
authorAndrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Wed, 8 Jul 2020 01:53:18 +0000 (18:53 -0700)
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Wed, 8 Jul 2020 22:44:45 +0000 (00:44 +0200)
commit6984cbc6dfa280687367b9660d8c830518239851
treed9de3685e5905e5ecd571e3bd12c1ba1089af49e
parent0e289487308236903b19273f2ddb4f0adf732b9e
selftests/bpf: Switch perf_buffer test to tracepoint and skeleton

Switch perf_buffer test to use skeleton to avoid use of bpf_prog_load() and
make test a bit more succinct. Also switch BPF program to use tracepoint
instead of kprobe, as that allows to support older kernels, which had
tracepoint support before kprobe support in the form that libbpf expects
(i.e., libbpf expects /sys/bus/event_source/devices/kprobe/type, which doesn't
always exist on old kernels).

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200708015318.3827358-7-andriin@fb.com
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/perf_buffer.c
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_perf_buffer.c