I noticed that the 'perf test bpf' was failing:
# perf test bpf
41: BPF filter :
41.1: Basic BPF filtering : Skip
41.2: BPF pinning : Skip
41.3: BPF prologue generation : Skip
41.4: BPF relocation checker : Skip
# ulimit -l
64
#
Using verbose mode we get just a line bout -EPERF being returned from
libbpf's bpf_load_program_xattr(), that ends up being used in 'perf
test bpf' initial program loading capability query:
Missing basic BPF support, skip this test: Operation not permitted
Not that informative, but on a separate problem when creating BPF maps
bumping rlimit(MEMLOCK) helped, so I tried it here as well, works:
# ulimit -l 128
# perf test bpf
41: BPF filter :
41.1: Basic BPF filtering : Ok
41.2: BPF pinning : Ok
41.3: BPF prologue generation : Ok
41.4: BPF relocation checker : Ok
#
So use the recently added rlimit__bump_memlock() helper:
# ulimit -l 64
# perf test bpf
41: BPF filter :
41.1: Basic BPF filtering : Ok
41.2: BPF pinning : Ok
41.3: BPF prologue generation : Ok
41.4: BPF relocation checker : Ok
# ulimit -l
64
#
I.e. the bumping of memlock is restricted to the 'perf test' instance,
not changing the global value.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-b9fubkhr4jm192lu7y8hgjvo@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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