Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1 1/7] selftests/bpf: Build callx tests with GCC that defines __BPF_FEATURE_CALLX

[Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta@linux.dev>]

On 10/27/26 5:46 PM, bot+bpf-ci@kernel.org wrote:
>> selftests/bpf: Build callx tests with GCC that defines __BPF_FEATURE_CALLX
> TL;DR: Nit only: the new __skip() reason in the callx selftests omits riscv64,
> though riscv64 is supported, so a riscv64 build with a GCC lacking callx
> prints a misleading skip message.
>
>>
>> +/* clang always emits callx, gcc only when it defines __BPF_FEATURE_CALLX */
>> +#if (defined(__TARGET_ARCH_arm64) || defined(__TARGET_ARCH_x86) ||	\
>> +     (defined(__TARGET_ARCH_riscv) && __riscv_xlen == 64)) &&		\
>> +	(defined(__clang__) || defined(__BPF_FEATURE_CALLX))
>> +#define CAN_USE_CALLX
>> +#endif
>> +
>> @@ -1075,6 +1073,7 @@ int callx_c_ops_on_stack(void *ctx)
>>   #else
>>
>>   SEC("socket")
>> +__skip("callx needs x86/arm64 JIT and compiler support")
>>   __success
>>   int dummy(void *ctx)
>>   {
> this isn't a bug, but the skip reason leaves out riscv64, even though the
> CAN_USE_CALLX macro above accepts it.
>
> The same string is added to the dummy() program in
> verifier_callx_rodata.c.  The riscv64 JIT implements bpf_jit_supports_callx(),
> and commit 530dfafc6107 ("selftests/bpf: Enable callx related testcases for
> RV64") turned these tests on for RV64.
>
> On a riscv64 build with a bpf-gcc that does not define __BPF_FEATURE_CALLX,
> the arch supports callx and only the compiler lacks it, yet run_subtest()
> prints:
>
>    run_subtest:SKIP: callx needs x86/arm64 JIT and compiler support
>
> That reads as though riscv64 itself were unsupported.
>
> Could the reason say x86/arm64/riscv64, or leave the arch list out (for
> example "toolchain or JIT can't do callx", as the new comment in
> callx_rodata_lskel.c does)?

I'll just leave out the arch list and refer to just toolchain or JIT.

Thx,
-Vineet

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