selftests/bpf: Support building selftests in optimized -O2 mode
Add support for building selftests with -O2 level of optimization, which
allows more compiler warnings detection (like lots of potentially
uninitialized usage), but also is useful to have a faster-running test
for some CPU-intensive tests.
One can build optimized versions of libbpf and selftests by running:
$ make RELEASE=1
There is a measurable speed up of about 10 seconds for me locally,
though it's mostly capped by non-parallelized serial tests. User CPU
time goes down by total 40 seconds, from 1m10s to 0m28s.
Unoptimized build (-O0)
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Summary: 430/3544 PASSED, 25 SKIPPED, 4 FAILED
real 1m59.937s
user 1m10.877s
sys 3m14.880s
Optimized build (-O2)
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Summary: 425/3543 PASSED, 25 SKIPPED, 9 FAILED
real 1m50.540s
user 0m28.406s
sys 3m13.198s
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231006175744.3136675-2-andrii@kernel.org