Re: BPF CI update: veristat-scx job

[Andrii Nakryiko]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone.
>
> In effort to improve testing of both BPF subsystem and sched-ext
> project [1], a new testing workflow has been added to BPF CI:
> veristat-scx.
>
> veristat-kernel and veristat-meta jobs have been running for a while
> now, and veristat-scx is basically adding more test cases using
> sched-ext BPF programs as input.
>
> For those who aren't aware, veristat [2] is a command line tool that
> can be used to load BPF object files into the kernel and check
> verification results, among other things. It's source code is at
> ./tools/testing/selftests/bpf/veristat.c
>
> On BPF CI, veristat-${target} job takes BPF object files (determined
> by ${target}) as input, and runs veristat on them against the kernel
> under testing. In addition to checking whether BPF program is accepted
> by the verifier, the CI job also collects verifier performance stats,
> and compares them to the baseline *failing* if a significant
> regression is detected.
>
> See an example of successful job run here:
> https://github.com/kernel-patches/bpf/actions/runs/15543439297/job/43761685117

Unsuccessful veristat runs are actually more interesting :) Do you
have a link to some examples with veristat failures?

>
> [1] https://github.com/sched-ext/scx
> [2] https://github.com/libbpf/veristat
>