Re: [PATCH net v2] selftests/bpf: fix broken build due to types.h

[Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>]

On 05/18/2017 01:48 AM, Yonghong Song wrote:
> On 5/17/17 3:57 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> On 05/18/2017 12:18 AM, Yonghong Song wrote:
>>> Commit 0a5539f66133 ("bpf: Provide a linux/types.h override
>>> for bpf selftests.") caused a build failure for tools/testing/selftest/bpf
>>> because of some missing types:
>>>      $ make -C tools/testing/selftests/bpf/
>>>      ...
>>>      In file included from /home/yhs/work/net-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_pkt_access.c:8:
>>>      ../../../include/uapi/linux/bpf.h:170:3: error: unknown type name '__aligned_u64'
>>>                      __aligned_u64   key;
>>>      ...
>>>      /usr/include/linux/swab.h:160:8: error: unknown type name '__always_inline'
>>>      static __always_inline __u16 __swab16p(const __u16 *p)
>>>      ...
>>> The type __aligned_u64 is defined in linux:include/uapi/linux/types.h.
>>>
>>> The fix is to copy missing type definition into
>>> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/include/uapi/linux/types.h.
>>> Adding additional include "string.h" resolves __always_inline issue.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 0a5539f66133 ("bpf: Provide a linux/types.h override for bpf selftests.")
>>> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
>>
>> Can you elaborate why string.h specifically? Can't we define the
>> __always_inline ourselves?
>
> Actually, yes, we can define __always_inline ourselves in each bpf program or in some common header files used by all selftests bpf
> programs.
>
> I use string.h because several other bpf programs
> (test_xdp.c test_l4lb.c test_tcp_estats.c) they all have
> __always_inline and string.h, so they do not have issue.
> I discovered this pattern so I just add string.h into test_pkt_access.c
> as well.

Ok, thanks for clarifying.