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From: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
To: bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	Saket Kumar Bhaskar <skb99@linux.ibm.com>,
	Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>,
	Abhishek Dubey <adubey@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: bpf/selftests: test_access_variable_array breaks due to sched_domain::span removal
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 21:42:02 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e129be5-d61e-4bc4-b691-8d69e2f58de6@linux.ibm.com> (raw)

Hi,


While running BPF selftests on current linux-next, I noticed that
test_access_variable_array fails to build due to reliance on
struct sched_domain::span, which is no longer appers to be BTF-visible 
after recent
scheduler refactoring.

The Build error I am seeing is:

progs/test_access_variable_array.c:14:13: error: no member named 'span' 
in 'struct sched_domain'  CLNG-BPF [test_progs] test_check_mtu.bpf.o

    14 |         span = sd->span[0];
       |                ~~  ^

Below is a proposed update to the test that switches from
sched_domain::span to sched_group::cpumask. This preserves the original
intent of validating variable-length array access via BTF while avoiding
reliance on removed scheduler internals.


diff --git 
a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_access_variable_array.c 
b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_access_variable_array.c
index 326b7d1f496a..c9f345ccde3c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_access_variable_array.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_access_variable_array.c
@@ -4,14 +4,18 @@
  #include "vmlinux.h"
  #include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h>
  #include <bpf/bpf_tracing.h>
+#include <bpf/bpf_core_read.h>

-unsigned long span = 0;
+unsigned long cpumask0 = 0;

-SEC("fentry/sched_balance_rq")
-int BPF_PROG(fentry_fentry, int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
-               struct sched_domain *sd)
+SEC("fentry/sched_balance_find_dst_group_cpu")
+int BPF_PROG(fentry_fentry, struct sched_group *sg, struct task_struct *p,
+               int this_cpu)
  {
-       span = sd->span[0];
+       unsigned long *mask;
+       /* Read pointer to variable-length CPU mask */
+       mask = BPF_CORE_READ(sg, cpumask);
+       cpumask0 = mask[0];

         return 0;
  }


I have tested this change, and it seems to be working as expected.


# ./test_progs -t access_variable_array
#1       access_variable_array:OK
Summary: 1/0 PASSED, 0 SKIPPED, 0 FAILED


Please note that this comes from my early days of working on upstream
kernel contributions, and I am still learning the BPF and scheduler
internals. My understanding here may be incomplete, so I wanted to
share this primarily to report the breakage I am seeing and propose a
possible direction for fixing the test.

I would appreciate any feedback on whether this is the right approach,
or if there is a more appropriate structure or hook to use for
preserving the variable-length array coverage in this selftest.


Regards,

Venkat.




             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-07 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-07 16:12 Venkat Rao Bagalkote [this message]
2026-04-07 17:33 ` bpf/selftests: test_access_variable_array breaks due to sched_domain::span removal Alexei Starovoitov
2026-04-08  4:51   ` Saket Kumar Bhaskar
2026-04-08  7:56     ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-08  8:36       ` Alan Maguire

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