From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: buildroot@buildroot.org
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] support/testing: add bpftrace test
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:55:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260827095520.1049186-3-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260827095520.1049186-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
This commit adds a simple bpftrace test that ensures that not only it
builds fine, but it also runs properly on a minimal test scenario.
Assisted-by: GPT-5.6
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
---
DEVELOPERS | 2 +
.../testing/tests/package/test_bpftrace.py | 66 +++++++++++++++++++
.../test_bpftrace/linux-bpftrace.fragment | 4 ++
3 files changed, 72 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 support/testing/tests/package/test_bpftrace.py
create mode 100644 support/testing/tests/package/test_bpftrace/linux-bpftrace.fragment
diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index 5eb438906f..080aaac5e0 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -3297,6 +3297,8 @@ F: support/testing/tests/package/sample_python_flask_expects_json.py
F: support/testing/tests/package/sample_python_git.py
F: support/testing/tests/package/sample_python_pyudev.py
F: support/testing/tests/package/sample_python_unittest_xml_reporting.py
+F: support/testing/tests/package/test_bpftrace.py
+F: support/testing/tests/package/test_bpftrace/linux-bpftrace.fragment
F: support/testing/tests/package/test_nodejs.py
F: support/testing/tests/package/test_python_augeas.py
F: support/testing/tests/package/test_python_crccheck.py
diff --git a/support/testing/tests/package/test_bpftrace.py b/support/testing/tests/package/test_bpftrace.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..70ccfe8b20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/testing/tests/package/test_bpftrace.py
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+import os
+
+import infra.basetest
+
+
+# gitlab-runner: 2xlarge
+class TestBpftrace(infra.basetest.BRTest):
+ kern_fragment = infra.filepath(
+ "tests/package/test_bpftrace/linux-bpftrace.fragment"
+ )
+ config = f"""
+ BR2_aarch64=y
+ BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y
+ BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="ttyAMA0"
+ BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
+ BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
+ BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="6.6.32"
+ BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_CUSTOM_CONFIG=y
+ BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE="board/qemu/aarch64-virt/linux.config"
+ BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CONFIG_FRAGMENT_FILES="{kern_fragment}"
+ BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_OPENSSL=y
+ BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS=y
+ BR2_PACKAGE_BPFTRACE=y
+ BR2_PACKAGE_TAR=y
+ BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y
+ BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_4=y
+ BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE="256M"
+ # BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR is not set
+ """
+
+ def test_run(self):
+ drive = os.path.join(self.builddir, "images", "rootfs.ext4")
+ kern = os.path.join(self.builddir, "images", "Image")
+ self.emulator.boot(
+ arch="aarch64",
+ kernel=kern,
+ kernel_cmdline=["root=/dev/vda console=ttyAMA0"],
+ options=[
+ "-M",
+ "virt",
+ "-cpu",
+ "cortex-a57",
+ "-m",
+ "256M",
+ "-drive",
+ f"file={drive},if=virtio,format=raw",
+ ],
+ )
+ self.emulator.login()
+
+ self.assertRunOk("mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/")
+
+ # Check that bpftrace can find a syscall tracepoint.
+ self.assertRunOk("bpftrace -l 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_execve'")
+
+ # Compile and attach a tracepoint program, then trigger it with the
+ # command executed by bpftrace. The marker avoids matching volatile
+ # fields such as PIDs or command names.
+ cmd = (
+ "bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_execve "
+ '{ printf("buildroot-bpftrace-test\\n"); exit(); }\' '
+ "-c /bin/true"
+ )
+ output, ret = self.emulator.run(cmd)
+ self.assertEqual(ret, 0)
+ self.assertIn("buildroot-bpftrace-test", "\n".join(output))
diff --git a/support/testing/tests/package/test_bpftrace/linux-bpftrace.fragment b/support/testing/tests/package/test_bpftrace/linux-bpftrace.fragment
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..35359b08f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/testing/tests/package/test_bpftrace/linux-bpftrace.fragment
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+CONFIG_FTRACE=y
+CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y
+CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
+CONFIG_KPROBES=y
--
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