Add: CiCd Validation Tests Automation (#1077)

Add: CiCd Validation Tests Automation.
This include manual workflow that can be triggered by validation team to
run any existing tests.

Signed-off-by: Milosz Linkiewicz <[email protected]>

Author: Mionsz

.github/workflows/validation-tests.yml

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+name: validation-bare-metal
+
+on:
+  # allow manually trigger
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      branch-to-checkout:
+        type: string
+        default: 'main'
+        required: false
+        description: 'Branch name to use'
+      validation-tests:
+        type: string
+        default: 'tests/single/video/pacing'
+        required: true
+        description: 'Validation tests to run'
+
+env:
+  # Customize the env if
+  BUILD_TYPE: 'Release'
+  DPDK_VERSION: '23.11'
+  # Bellow ENV variables are required to be defined on runner side:
+  # TEST_PF_PORT_P: '0000:49:00.0'
+  # TEST_PF_PORT_R: '0000:49:00.1'
+  # TEST_PORT_P: '0000:49:01.2'
+  # TEST_PORT_R: '0000:49:01.3'
+  # TEST_DMA_PORT_P: '0000:6a:01.0'
+  # TEST_DMA_PORT_R: '0000:6f:01.0'
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  validation-build-mtl:
+    runs-on: [Linux, self-hosted, DPDK]
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Harden Runner
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@91182cccc01eb5e619899d80e4e971d6181294a7 # v2.10.1
+        with:
+          egress-policy: audit
+
+      - name: Checkout MTL
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          ref: '${{ inputs.branch-to-checkout }}'
+
+      - name: Checkout DPDK
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          repository: 'DPDK/dpdk'
+          ref: 'v${{  env.DPDK_VERSION  }}'
+          path: 'dpdk'
+
+      - name: Install the build dependency
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get install -y git gcc meson python3 python3-pyelftools pkg-config libnuma-dev libjson-c-dev libpcap-dev libgtest-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libssl-dev
+          sudo apt-get install -y systemtap-sdt-dev pipenv
+
+      - name: Apply dpdk patches
+        run: |
+          patch -d "dpdk" -p1 -i <(cat patches/dpdk/${{  env.DPDK_VERSION  }}/*.patch)
+
+      - name: Build dpdk
+        run: |
+          cd dpdk
+          meson build
+          ninja -C build
+          cd build
+          sudo ninja install
+
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          ./build.sh
+          sudo ldconfig
+
+      - name: Prepare pipenv environment
+        working-directory: tests/validation
+        run: |
+          pipenv install -r requirements.txt
+
+  validation-run-tests:
+    needs: [validation-build-mtl]
+    runs-on: [Linux, self-hosted, DPDK]
+    steps:
+      - name: Harden Runner
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@91182cccc01eb5e619899d80e4e971d6181294a7 # v2.10.1
+        with:
+          egress-policy: audit
+
+      - name: Kill previous pytest routine
+        run: |
+          sudo killall -SIGINT pipenv || true
+          sudo killall -SIGINT pytest || true
+          sudo killall -SIGINT MtlManager || true
+
+      - name: Binding network adapter
+        run: |
+          sudo ./script/nicctl.sh create_vf "${TEST_PF_PORT_P}" || true
+          sudo ./dpdk/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b vfio-pci "${TEST_DMA_PORT_P}" || true
+          sudo ./dpdk/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b vfio-pci "${TEST_DMA_PORT_R}" || true
+
+      - name: Start MtlManager at background
+        run: |
+          sudo MtlManager &
+
+      - name: Run tests in pipenv environment
+        working-directory: tests/validation
+        run: |
+          sudo pipenv run pytest '${{ inputs.validation-tests }}' --nic="${TEST_PORT_P},${TEST_PORT_R}" --media=/mnt/media