[PATCH v2 1/4] selftests: add shared lib.bpf.mk to build BPF progs and skeletons
From: Ziyang Men <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-21 17:48:40
Also in:
bpf, cgroups, linux-kselftest, linux-mm, lkml, llvm, sched-ext
Subsystem:
kernel selftest framework, the rest · Maintainers:
Shuah Khan, Linus Torvalds
The libbpf + bpftool + vmlinux.h + BPF-object + skeleton build tool-chain
is currently duplicated across tools/testing/selftests/{bpf,sched_ext,
hid}/, each carrying ~100-140 lines of near-identical Makefile. As more
subsystems grow BPF-based selftests, the duplication scales poorly.
Add tools/testing/selftests/lib.bpf.mk, a single includable fragment that
provides the whole chain end-to-end. It builds the in-tree libbpf.a and a
host bpftool, generates vmlinux.h from the kernel's BTF, compiles *.bpf.c
into BPF objects (clang --target=bpf) and generates their skeletons. It
also provides what the user-space test binary needs to build: the header
search paths (so #includes resolve), a bpf_link macro that wraps the link
command, and BPF_LDLIBS, so the test can be statically linked against
libbpf.a.
To use: set BPF_SRCS and OVERRIDE_TARGETS := 1 before including ../lib.mk
(so lib.mk's default link rule is suppressed), then include ../lib.bpf.mk
and list $(BPF_SKELS) as prerequisites of the test binary, e.g.,:
BPF_SRCS := progs/foo.bpf.c
OVERRIDE_TARGETS := 1
include ../lib.mk
include ../lib.bpf.mk
$(OUTPUT)/foo_test: foo_test.c $(BPF_SKELS)
$(call bpf_link,$@,$<)
This saves much work for configuring selftests in other folder, such the cgroup.
net/bpf.mk (which only builds *.bpf.o, without skeleton or vmlinux.h
generation) is left unchanged; replacing the existing duplication
mentioned above is the next step.
Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Mykola Lysenko <redacted>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ziyang Men <redacted>
---
tools/testing/selftests/lib.bpf.mk | 247 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 247 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/lib.bpf.mk
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.bpf.mk b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.bpf.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6f175c6568e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.bpf.mk@@ -0,0 +1,247 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +# +# Shared fragment for selftests that compile *.bpf.c into BPF objects + +# skeletons and link them into userspace test binaries, without each +# subsystem's Makefile re-implementing the libbpf/bpftool/vmlinux.h machinery. +# +# Caller contract (per-test Makefile): +# +# BPF_SRCS := foo.bpf.c bar.bpf.c +# TEST_GEN_PROGS := foo_test +# OVERRIDE_TARGETS := 1 # MUST be set before lib.mk +# include ../lib.mk # defines OUTPUT, CC, Q, msg, +# include ../lib.bpf.mk # selfdir, top_srcdir; honours OVERRIDE +# +# $(OUTPUT)/foo_test: foo_test.c $(BPF_SKELS) +# $(call bpf_link,$@,$<) +# +# Optional knobs (set before including lib.bpf.mk): +# BPF_PROG_EXT - source suffix, default .bpf.c; set to .c for the legacy +# "progs/foo.c -> foo.bpf.o" layout. +# BPF_EXTRA_HDRS - extra prerequisites (headers) for the BPF objects. +# BPF_EXTRA_CFLAGS - appended to BPF_CFLAGS for the BPF compile. +# BPF_SKEL_EXT - skeleton suffix, default .skel.h (e.g. .bpf.skel.h). +# BPF_GEN_SUBSKEL - if set, also emit a subskeleton next to each skeleton. +# BPF_OBJ_DIR - dir for generated *.bpf.o (default $(OUTPUT)). +# BPF_SKEL_DIR - dir for generated skeletons (default $(OUTPUT)). +# A caller with unusual compile needs may override BPF_CFLAGS wholesale after +# the include (the object recipe expands it lazily). +# BPF_SRCS entries may live in a subdirectory (e.g. progs/foo.bpf.c); the +# objects and skeletons are always emitted flat under $(OUTPUT), keyed by the +# source basename (foo.bpf.o / foo.skel.h). +# +# lib.mk MUST be included first: this fragment consumes the vars it defines +# (OUTPUT, top_srcdir, CC, CLANG, Q, msg) and needs OVERRIDE_TARGETS to have +# already suppressed lib.mk's default link rule. + +include $(top_srcdir)/tools/scripts/Makefile.arch # ARCH / SRCARCH +# Pull in the shared toolchain definitions (HOSTCC/HOSTLD/CLANG) so this +# fragment picks the *same* host compiler the libbpf and bpftool sub-makes +# will: in particular HOSTCC becomes clang under LLVM=1 (gcc otherwise). +# Without this the host bpftool and its bootstrap libbpf can end up built with +# a mix of gcc and clang, which trips clang on gcc-only flags (-Wstrict-aliasing=3). +# +# Makefile.include's allow-override resets CC to a bare "clang", which would +# drop the --target=<arch> flag lib.mk set for LLVM=1 cross builds (make LLVM=1 +# ARCH=arm64). lib.mk ran first and configured CC for the target, so save it +# across the include and restore it afterwards. +lib_bpf_mk_saved_cc := $(CC) +include $(top_srcdir)/tools/scripts/Makefile.include +CC := $(lib_bpf_mk_saved_cc) + +CLANG ?= clang +HOSTCC ?= gcc +HOSTLD ?= ld +ifneq ($(V),1) +submake_extras := feature_display=0 +endif + +# ---- paths & tools -------------------------------------------------------- +TOOLSDIR := $(top_srcdir)/tools +LIBDIR := $(TOOLSDIR)/lib +BPFDIR := $(LIBDIR)/bpf +TOOLSINCDIR := $(TOOLSDIR)/include +BPFTOOLDIR := $(TOOLSDIR)/bpf/bpftool +APIDIR := $(TOOLSINCDIR)/uapi + +# Everything generated lives under $(OUTPUT) so O= and in-tree both work and +# per-test builds (distinct $(OUTPUT)) never collide. +SCRATCH_DIR := $(OUTPUT)/tools +BUILD_DIR := $(SCRATCH_DIR)/build +INCLUDE_DIR := $(SCRATCH_DIR)/include +BPFOBJ := $(BUILD_DIR)/libbpf/libbpf.a + +# bpftool must run on the *host*; split the host toolchain out when cross-building. +ifneq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),) +HOST_BUILD_DIR := $(BUILD_DIR)/host +HOST_SCRATCH_DIR := $(OUTPUT)/host-tools +else +HOST_BUILD_DIR := $(BUILD_DIR) +HOST_SCRATCH_DIR := $(SCRATCH_DIR) +endif +HOST_BPFOBJ := $(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/libbpf/libbpf.a +DEFAULT_BPFTOOL := $(HOST_SCRATCH_DIR)/sbin/bpftool +BPFTOOL ?= $(DEFAULT_BPFTOOL) + +# ---- vmlinux BTF discovery ----------------------------------------------- +VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS ?= $(if $(O),$(O)/vmlinux) \ + $(if $(KBUILD_OUTPUT),$(KBUILD_OUTPUT)/vmlinux) \ + $(top_srcdir)/vmlinux \ + /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux \ + /boot/vmlinux-$(shell uname -r) +VMLINUX_BTF ?= $(abspath $(firstword $(wildcard $(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS)))) +ifeq ($(VMLINUX_BTF),) +$(error Cannot find a vmlinux for VMLINUX_BTF at any of "$(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS)") +endif + +# ---- clang flags ---------------------------------------------------------- +# Clang's default system includes (not the ones seen under --target=bpf); fixes +# "missing" asm/byteorder.h etc. '-idirafter' so we never shadow real includes. +define get_sys_includes +$(shell $(1) $(2) -v -E - </dev/null 2>&1 \ + | sed -n '/<...> search starts here:/,/End of search list./{ s| \(/.*\)|-idirafter \1|p }') \ +$(shell $(1) $(2) -dM -E - </dev/null | grep '__riscv_xlen ' | awk '{printf("-D__riscv_xlen=%d -D__BITS_PER_LONG=%d", $$3, $$3)}') +endef +ifneq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),) +CLANG_TARGET_ARCH = --target=$(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE:%-=%)) +endif +CLANG_SYS_INCLUDES = $(call get_sys_includes,$(CLANG),$(CLANG_TARGET_ARCH)) + +IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN = $(shell $(CC) -dM -E - </dev/null | \ + grep 'define __BYTE_ORDER__ __ORDER_LITTLE_ENDIAN__') +MENDIAN = $(if $(IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN),-mlittle-endian,-mbig-endian) + +# Prefer -mcpu=v3; fall back to v2 on clang too old to know it (probed once). +CLANG_BPF_CPU := $(shell $(CLANG) --target=bpf -mcpu=help 2>&1 | grep -q 'v3' \ + && echo v3 || echo v2) + +# -fms-extensions + -Wno-microsoft-anon-tag: required so clang accepts the +# anonymous nested struct/union members bpftool emits into vmlinux.h. +BPF_CFLAGS = -g -Wall -Werror -D__TARGET_ARCH_$(SRCARCH) $(MENDIAN) \ + -I$(INCLUDE_DIR) -I$(APIDIR) -I$(TOOLSINCDIR) \ + -std=gnu11 \ + -fno-strict-aliasing \ + -fms-extensions -Wno-microsoft-anon-tag \ + -Wno-compare-distinct-pointer-types \ + $(CLANG_SYS_INCLUDES) $(BPF_EXTRA_CFLAGS) + +# $1 = src .bpf.c, $2 = dst .bpf.o +define BPF_BUILD_RULE + $(call msg,CLNG-BPF,,$2) + $(Q)$(CLANG) $(BPF_CFLAGS) -O2 --target=bpf -mcpu=$(CLANG_BPF_CPU) -c $1 -o $2 +endef + +# ---- output dirs for generated objects/skeletons -------------------------- +# Default: flat under $(OUTPUT) (what bpf/, hid/, cgroup/ do). A caller may +# segregate the generated files into subdirs, e.g. BPF_SKEL_DIR := $(OUTPUT)/... +BPF_OBJ_DIR ?= $(OUTPUT) +BPF_SKEL_DIR ?= $(OUTPUT) + +# ---- scratch dirs --------------------------------------------------------- +MAKE_DIRS := $(sort $(BUILD_DIR)/libbpf $(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/libbpf \ + $(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/bpftool $(INCLUDE_DIR) \ + $(filter-out $(OUTPUT),$(BPF_OBJ_DIR) $(BPF_SKEL_DIR))) +$(MAKE_DIRS): + $(call msg,MKDIR,,$@) + $(Q)mkdir -p $@ + +# ---- libbpf (target) ------------------------------------------------------ +# Pass ARCH/CROSS_COMPILE/CC through: lib.mk's CC is file-origin and is not +# exported, so without this the libbpf sub-make would rebuild for the host under +# a pure-LLVM cross build (make LLVM=1 ARCH=<arch>). -fPIC keeps the static +# libbpf linkable into position-independent (PIE) test binaries. +$(BPFOBJ): $(wildcard $(BPFDIR)/*.[ch] $(BPFDIR)/Makefile) \ + $(APIDIR)/linux/bpf.h | $(BUILD_DIR)/libbpf + $(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C $(BPFDIR) OUTPUT=$(BUILD_DIR)/libbpf/ \ + ARCH=$(ARCH) CROSS_COMPILE=$(CROSS_COMPILE) CC="$(CC)" \ + EXTRA_CFLAGS='-g -O0 -fPIC' \ + DESTDIR=$(SCRATCH_DIR) prefix= all install_headers + +# ---- libbpf (host) -- a distinct rule only when cross-compiling ----------- +ifneq ($(BPFOBJ),$(HOST_BPFOBJ)) +$(HOST_BPFOBJ): $(wildcard $(BPFDIR)/*.[ch] $(BPFDIR)/Makefile) \ + | $(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/libbpf + $(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C $(BPFDIR) ARCH= CROSS_COMPILE= \ + OUTPUT=$(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/libbpf/ CC=$(HOSTCC) LD=$(HOSTLD) \ + EXTRA_CFLAGS='-g -O0' \ + DESTDIR=$(HOST_SCRATCH_DIR) prefix= all install_headers +endif + +# ---- bpftool (host) ------------------------------------------------------- +$(DEFAULT_BPFTOOL): $(wildcard $(BPFTOOLDIR)/*.[ch] $(BPFTOOLDIR)/Makefile) \ + $(HOST_BPFOBJ) | $(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/bpftool + $(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C $(BPFTOOLDIR) \ + ARCH= CROSS_COMPILE= CC=$(HOSTCC) LD=$(HOSTLD) \ + EXTRA_CFLAGS='-g -O0' \ + OUTPUT=$(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/bpftool/ \ + LIBBPF_OUTPUT=$(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/libbpf/ \ + LIBBPF_DESTDIR=$(HOST_SCRATCH_DIR)/ \ + prefix= DESTDIR=$(HOST_SCRATCH_DIR)/ install-bin + +# ---- vmlinux.h ------------------------------------------------------------ +$(INCLUDE_DIR)/vmlinux.h: $(VMLINUX_BTF) $(BPFTOOL) | $(INCLUDE_DIR) +ifeq ($(VMLINUX_H),) + $(call msg,GEN,,$@) + $(Q)$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $(VMLINUX_BTF) format c > $@ +else + $(call msg,CP,,$@) + $(Q)cp "$(VMLINUX_H)" $@ +endif + +# ---- BPF objects + skeletons --------------------------------------------- +# Sources may sit in a subdir and use the modern *.bpf.c or the legacy *.c +# suffix (BPF_PROG_EXT); objects go in $(BPF_OBJ_DIR) and skeletons in +# $(BPF_SKEL_DIR) (both default to $(OUTPUT)), keyed by the source basename. +BPF_PROG_EXT ?= .bpf.c +bpf_stems := $(patsubst %$(BPF_PROG_EXT),%,$(notdir $(BPF_SRCS))) +# The output namespace is flat, so two sources with the same basename would +# collapse into one object/skeleton; fail loudly instead of silently dropping. +ifneq ($(words $(bpf_stems)),$(words $(sort $(bpf_stems)))) +$(error lib.bpf.mk: BPF_SRCS has colliding basenames: $(BPF_SRCS)) +endif +# BPF_SKEL_EXT lets a caller pick the skeleton suffix (default .skel.h; e.g. +# .bpf.skel.h). With BPF_GEN_SUBSKEL set, a matching subskeleton is emitted +# alongside (foo.subskel.h / foo.bpf.subskel.h). +BPF_SKEL_EXT ?= .skel.h +BPF_SUBSKEL_EXT := $(patsubst %skel.h,%subskel.h,$(BPF_SKEL_EXT)) +BPF_OBJS := $(addprefix $(BPF_OBJ_DIR)/,$(addsuffix .bpf.o,$(bpf_stems))) +BPF_SKELS := $(addprefix $(BPF_SKEL_DIR)/,$(addsuffix $(BPF_SKEL_EXT),$(bpf_stems))) + +# Locate the sources wherever the caller keeps them (e.g. progs/). +vpath %$(BPF_PROG_EXT) $(sort $(dir $(BPF_SRCS))) + +$(BPF_OBJS): $(BPF_OBJ_DIR)/%.bpf.o: %$(BPF_PROG_EXT) $(BPF_EXTRA_HDRS) \ + $(wildcard *.bpf.h) $(INCLUDE_DIR)/vmlinux.h | $(BPF_OBJ_DIR) $(BPFOBJ) + $(call BPF_BUILD_RULE,$<,$@) + +$(BPF_SKELS): $(BPF_SKEL_DIR)/%$(BPF_SKEL_EXT): $(BPF_OBJ_DIR)/%.bpf.o $(BPFTOOL) | $(BPF_SKEL_DIR) + $(call msg,GEN-SKEL,,$@) + $(Q)$(BPFTOOL) gen object $(<:.o=.linked.o) $< + $(Q)$(BPFTOOL) gen skeleton $(<:.o=.linked.o) name $(notdir $(<:.bpf.o=)) > $@ +ifneq ($(BPF_GEN_SUBSKEL),) + $(Q)$(BPFTOOL) gen subskeleton $(<:.o=.linked.o) name $(notdir $(<:.bpf.o=)) > $(@:$(BPF_SKEL_EXT)=$(BPF_SUBSKEL_EXT)) +endif + +# ---- exports consumed by the caller -------------------------------------- +# -I$(OUTPUT)/-I$(BPF_SKEL_DIR): so the test .c can #include "foo.skel.h". +# -I$(INCLUDE_DIR): so userspace can pull in the generated vmlinux.h if needed. +CFLAGS += -I$(OUTPUT) -I$(BPF_SKEL_DIR) -I$(INCLUDE_DIR) + +# Static libbpf.a first, then its deps. libbpf may pull in zstd (BTF decompress) +# only when built against it; link -lzstd only if libzstd is present. +BPF_LDLIBS := $(BPFOBJ) -lelf -lz +ifneq ($(shell pkg-config --exists libzstd 2>/dev/null && echo y),) +BPF_LDLIBS += -lzstd +endif + +TEST_GEN_FILES += $(BPF_OBJS) + +# Link helper: $1 = output binary, $2 = test .c (skels are the target's deps). +define bpf_link + $(call msg,BINARY,,$1) + $(Q)$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $2 $(BPF_LDLIBS) $(LDLIBS) -o $1 +endef + +EXTRA_CLEAN += $(SCRATCH_DIR) $(HOST_SCRATCH_DIR) \ + $(addprefix $(BPF_OBJ_DIR)/,*.bpf.o *.linked.o) \ + $(addprefix $(BPF_SKEL_DIR)/,*$(BPF_SKEL_EXT) *$(BPF_SUBSKEL_EXT))
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