On 08/27/2015 12:10 PM, Shuah Khan wrote: > On 08/18/2015 01:01 AM, naresh.kamb...@linaro.org wrote: >> From: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamb...@linaro.org> >> >> zram: Compressed RAM based block devices >> ---------------------------------------- >> 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>/ >> >> This patch is to validate the zram functionality. Test interacts with block >> device /dev/zram<id> and sysfs nodes /sys/block/zram<id>/ >> > > Hi Naresh, > > This doesn't fail gracefully when a regular user runs it. Please add > a check for root and make the test fail gracefully when a non-root > user runs it. > > Please refer to tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/efivarfs.sh > for an example on how to check for root. > > I was getting ready to apply this to linux-kselftest next for 4.3 > and ran some sanity tests. If you get me new revision quickly > I can get it into 4.3-rc1.
Hi Naresh, The patch is now in linux-kselftest next. Please send a fix in for the non-root case for me get it into 4.3-rc1 or rc2. thanks, -- Shuah -- Shuah Khan Sr. Linux Kernel Developer Open Source Innovation Group Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley) shua...@osg.samsung.com | (970) 217-8978 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
