On Tue, 22 Sept 2026 at 11:40, David Marchand <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > -- > David Marchand > > Changes since v3: > - fixed support of newer meson version in last patch, > > Changes since v2: > - automated tests list generation in last patch, > > Changes since v1: > - rebased, > - dropped patch 1 on bbdev, > - dropped dependency on net/ring in devargs test, > - removed hacks from last patch, flushed excluded tests list, > added test-null.sh check, > > David Marchand (9): > 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: rely on net null driver > test/vdev: find device with public API > test: limit internal API usage > ci: make ABI reference generation faster > ci: run reference binaries against current ABI > > .ci/linux-build.sh | 44 ++++- > 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 | 21 +-- > 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_11.rst | 5 + > lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev.c | 20 +++ > lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev.h | 20 +++ > lib/hash/rte_thash_gfni.c | 4 +- > lib/hash/rte_thash_gfni.h | 2 - > 21 files changed, 393 insertions(+), 367 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 app/test/process.c
Series applied, thanks for the reviews. -- David Marchand
