[code sync] Merge code from sonic-net/sonic-sairedis:202411 to 202412 (…

…#15)

```<br>* 97bc0de0 - (HEAD -> 202412) Merge branch '202411' of https://github.com/sonic-net/sonic-sairedis into 202412 (2025-02-20) [Sonic Automation]
* ec8b3c3 - (origin/202411) Fix pipeline errors related to rsyslogd and libswsscommon installation (sonic-net#1535) (2025-02-19) [mssonicbld]
* 6b263b8 - [FC] Support Policer Counter (sonic-net#1533) (2025-02-19) [mssonicbld]
* e53489e - [syncd] Update log level for bulk api (sonic-net#1532) (2025-02-18) [Jianyue Wu]
* 7ae00e5 - Define bulk chunk size and bulk chunk size per counter ID (sonic-net#1528) (2025-02-11) [mssonicbld]
* f35e743 - [nvidia] Skip SAI discovery on ports (sonic-net#1524) (2025-02-07) [mssonicbld]
* bf049ed - Use sonictest pool instead of sonic-common and fix arm64 issue. (sonic-net#1516) (2025-02-05) [mssonicbld]
* ffe371d - [syncd] Support bulk set in INIT_VIEW mode (sonic-net#1517) (2025-02-05) [mssonicbld]<br>```

.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml

@@ -164,8 +164,13 @@ jobs:
       mv ../*.deb .
     displayName: "Compile sonic sairedis with coverage enabled"
   - script: |
+      set -ex
       sudo cp azsyslog.conf /etc/rsyslog.conf
+      cat /run/rsyslogd.pid
       sudo pkill -F /run/rsyslogd.pid
+      # Looks like arm64 (and sometimes amd64) rsyslogd needs some time to exit
+      sleep 2
+      ps -ef
       sudo rsyslogd
     displayName: "Update rsyslog.conf"
   - ${{ if eq(parameters.run_unit_test, true) }}:

.azure-pipelines/test-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml

@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ jobs:
 
   steps:
   - script: |
+      set -ex
       ls -A1 | xargs -I{} sudo rm -rf {}
+      sudo apt-get purge libswsscommon python3-swsscommon || true
     displayName: "Clean workspace"
   - checkout: self
     clean: true
@@ -73,10 +75,8 @@ jobs:
 
       sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get install -y libhiredis0.14 libyang0.16
-      sudo dpkg -i $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/libprotobuf*_amd64.deb $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/libprotobuf-lite*_amd64.deb $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/python3-protobuf*_amd64.deb
-      sudo dpkg -i $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/libdashapi*.deb
-      sudo dpkg -i --force-confask,confnew $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/libswsscommon_1.0.0_amd64.deb || apt-get install -f
-      sudo dpkg -i $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/python3-swsscommon_1.0.0_amd64.deb
+      sudo apt install -y $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/libprotobuf*_amd64.deb $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/libprotobuf-lite*_amd64.deb $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/python3-protobuf*_amd64.deb
+      sudo apt install -y $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/libdashapi*.deb $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/libswsscommon_1.0.0_amd64.deb $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/python3-swsscommon_1.0.0_amd64.deb
 
       # install packages for vs test
       sudo apt-get install -y net-tools bridge-utils vlan