[PATCH 5/5] selftests/powerpc: Add README for GZIP engine tests

Daniel Axtens dja at axtens.net
Wed Mar 18 17:40:46 AEDT 2020


This is a good readme, the instructions for compiling and testing work.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>

Regards,
Daniel

Raphael Moreira Zinsly <rzinsly at linux.ibm.com> writes:

> Include a README file with the instructions to use the
> testcases at selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bulent Abali <abali at us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Raphael Moreira Zinsly <rzinsly at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  .../powerpc/nx-gzip/99-nx-gzip.rules          |  1 +
>  .../testing/selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip/README  | 44 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip/99-nx-gzip.rules
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip/README
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip/99-nx-gzip.rules b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip/99-nx-gzip.rules
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..5a7118495cb3
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip/99-nx-gzip.rules
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +SUBSYSTEM=="nxgzip", KERNEL=="nx-gzip", MODE="0666"
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip/README b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip/README
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..ff0c817a65c5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip/README
> @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
> +Test the nx-gzip function:
> +=========================
> +
> +Verify that following device exists:
> +  /dev/crypto/nx-gzip
> +If you get a permission error run as sudo or set the device permissions:
> +   sudo chmod go+rw /dev/crypto/nx-gzip
> +However, chmod may not survive across boots. You may create a udev file such
> +as:
> +   /etc/udev/rules.d/99-nx-gzip.rules
> +
> +
> +Then make and run:
> +$ make
> +gcc -O3 -I./inc -o gzfht_test gzfht_test.c gzip_vas.c
> +gcc -O3 -I./inc -o gunz_test gunz_test.c gzip_vas.c
> +
> +
> +Compress any file using Fixed Huffman mode. Output will have a .nx.gz suffix:
> +$ ./gzfht_test gzip_vas.c
> +file gzip_vas.c read, 5276 bytes
> +compressed 5276 to 2564 bytes total, crc32 checksum = b937a37d
> +
> +
> +Uncompress the previous output. Output will have a .nx.gunzip suffix:
> +$ ./gunz_test gzip_vas.c.nx.gz
> +gzHeader FLG 0
> +00 00 00 00 04 03
> +gzHeader MTIME, XFL, OS ignored
> +computed checksum b937a37d isize 0000149c
> +stored   checksum b937a37d isize 0000149c
> +decomp is complete: fclose
> +
> +
> +Compare two files:
> +$ sha1sum gzip_vas.c.nx.gz.nx.gunzip gzip_vas.c
> +f041cd8581e8d920f79f6ce7f65411be5d026c2a  gzip_vas.c.nx.gz.nx.gunzip
> +f041cd8581e8d920f79f6ce7f65411be5d026c2a  gzip_vas.c
> +
> +
> +Note that the code here are intended for testing the nx-gzip hardware function.
> +They are not intended for demonstrating performance or compression ratio.
> +For more information and source code consider using:
> +https://github.com/libnxz/power-gzip
> -- 
> 2.21.0


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