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author | José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com> | 2016-04-11 10:41:07 +0300 |
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committer | José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com> | 2016-04-13 08:17:18 +0300 |
commit | e09b41010ba33a20a87472ee821fa407a5b8da36 (patch) | |
tree | d10dc367189862e7ca5c592f033dc3726e1df4e3 /kernel/tools/testing/selftests/zram/README | |
parent | f93b97fd65072de626c074dbe099a1fff05ce060 (diff) |
These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sources
are taken from kernel.org, and rt patch from the rt wiki download page.
During the rebasing, the following patch collided:
Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic(I70131fb85).
Collisions have been removed because its logic was found on the
source already.
Change-Id: I7f57a4081d9deaa0d9ccfc41a6c8daccdee3b769
Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
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diff --git a/kernel/tools/testing/selftests/zram/README b/kernel/tools/testing/selftests/zram/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..eb17917c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/tools/testing/selftests/zram/README @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +zram: Compressed RAM based block devices +---------------------------------------- +* Introduction + +The zram module creates RAM based block devices named /dev/zram<id> +(<id> = 0, 1, ...). Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored +in memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides +good amounts of memory savings. Some of the usecases include /tmp storage, +use as swap disks, various caches under /var and maybe many more :) + +Statistics for individual zram devices are exported through sysfs nodes at +/sys/block/zram<id>/ + +Kconfig required: +CONFIG_ZRAM=y +CONFIG_ZRAM_LZ4_COMPRESS=y +CONFIG_ZPOOL=y +CONFIG_ZSMALLOC=y + +ZRAM Testcases +-------------- +zram_lib.sh: create library with initialization/cleanup functions +zram.sh: For sanity check of CONFIG_ZRAM and to run zram01 and zram02 + +Two functional tests: zram01 and zram02: +zram01.sh: creates general purpose ram disks with ext4 filesystems +zram02.sh: creates block device for swap + +Commands required for testing: + - bc + - dd + - free + - awk + - mkswap + - swapon + - swapoff + - mkfs/ mkfs.ext4 + +For more information please refer: +kernel-source-tree/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt |