[PATCH 0/7] Get fast-test suite to run on FreeBSD

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 03:25:26PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 at 18:13, Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Bugzilla ID: 761
> >
> > The standard "fast-tests" suite is used to sanity-check large parts
> > of the DPDK codebase, but it failed to run successfully on FreeBSD,
> > with large numbers of failures. This is a long-standing issue reported
> > in Bugzilla back in 2021 (hence the 3-digit BZ ID)
> >
> > This set attempts to rectify this situation by allowing the suite
> > to run without errors. Mostly it does this by disabling test suites
> > that rely on features like multi-process which are unsupported on
> > FreeBSD. It also fixes the test_debug suite which should run on
> > BSD but was failing.
> >
> > After this set, a run on my FreeBSD system passes with zero failures
> > and 22 tests reported as skipped.
> >
> > Bruce Richardson (7):
> >   test/timer_secondary: skip test on FreeBSD
> >   test/eal_flags: skip test on FreeBSD
> >   test/pdump: skip test on FreeBSD
> >   test/secondary_process: skip test on FreeBSD
> >   test/external_memory: skip test on FreeBSD
> >   test/interrupts: skip test on FreeBSD
> >   test/debug: fix unit test on FreeBSD
> >
> >  app/test/process.h              | 11 ++++++++---
> >  app/test/test_debug.c           |  6 +++---
> >  app/test/test_eal_flags.c       | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
> >  app/test/test_external_mem.c    |  4 ++--
> >  app/test/test_interrupts.c      |  2 +-
> >  app/test/test_mp_secondary.c    |  4 ++--
> >  app/test/test_pdump.c           |  6 ++++++
> >  app/test/test_timer_secondary.c |  4 ++--
> >  8 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> 
> I would put the exec discovery rework in a first patch, then squash
> all the rest together.
> Otherwise, it lgtm on the principle.
> 
Ack, will rework into a 2-patch v2.

/Bruce