[PATCH 00/10] Limit usage of internal API in tests

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

This series is aimed at 26.11.

We had a few bug reports related to internal (and experimental) symbols
issues during 26.07 development.
See for example https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1957 or more
recently https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1967.

To catch such issues earlier in the CI, this series proposes to run
the unit tests through meson with the ABI reference unit test binary
against the current ABI libraries and drivers.

For this to work, some unit tests must be skipped (since meson may
invoke the ABI reference code with tests that were unknown at the time).

A few unit tests were directly dereferencing internal structures and are
reworked so they use public APIs.

Additionally, unit tests were allowed to use any internal API which has
hidden a few issues (like a public API backed by internal symbols in the
hash library).
So disable the global ALLLOW_INTERNAL_API and move it to code explicitly
requiring internal API, with the hope it will push us to have better API.

The last patch contains a hack for now, where the cached ABI reference
is force regenerated with a branch of mine where I backported the
fixes of this series.


-- 
David Marchand

David Marchand (10):
  bbdev: fix stats aggregation from queues
  bbdev: add per-queue statistics API
  hash: fix GFNI stubs export
  test: uninline helper for forking
  test/bonding: get MAC address with public API
  test/devargs: check driver presence with public API
  test/vdev: find device with public API
  test: limit internal API usage
  ci: make ABI reference generation faster
  ci: run reference unit tests against ABI

 .ci/linux-build.sh                     |  35 +++-
 .github/workflows/build.yml            |  15 +-
 MAINTAINERS                            |   1 +
 app/test-bbdev/test_bbdev_perf.c       |  38 +---
 app/test/meson.build                   |   7 +-
 app/test/process.c                     | 231 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 app/test/process.h                     | 228 +-----------------------
 app/test/test_devargs.c                |  12 +-
 app/test/test_external_mem.c           |   2 +
 app/test/test_link_bonding.c           |  35 ++--
 app/test/test_malloc.c                 |   2 +
 app/test/test_mempool.c                |   2 +
 app/test/test_pdump.c                  |   3 +
 app/test/test_pdump.h                  |   3 +
 app/test/test_vdev.c                   |  85 ++-------
 app/test/virtual_pmd.c                 |   2 +
 devtools/test-meson-builds.sh          |   5 +-
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst |   5 +
 lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev.c                  |  26 ++-
 lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev.h                  |  20 +++
 lib/hash/rte_thash_gfni.c              |   4 +-
 lib/hash/rte_thash_gfni.h              |   2 -
 22 files changed, 405 insertions(+), 358 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 app/test/process.c

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