From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Add a new option, COREDUMP_COMPRESSOR, that will be used to compress
core dumps collected during a fstests run. The program specified must
accept the -f -9 arguments that gzip has.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
README | 4 ++++
common/rc | 14 +++++++++-----
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 80d148be82..4c4f22f853 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -212,6 +212,10 @@ Tools specification:
- Set FSSTRESS_AVOID and/or FSX_AVOID, which contain options added to
the end of fsstresss and fsx invocations, respectively, in case you wish
to exclude certain operational modes from these tests.
+ - core dumps:
+ - Set COREDUMP_COMPRESSOR to a compression program to compress crash dumps.
+ This program must accept '-f' and the name of a file to compress. In
+ other words, it must emulate gzip.
Kernel/Modules related configuration:
- Set TEST_FS_MODULE_RELOAD=1 to unload the module and reload it between
diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
index 152b8bb414..c68869b7dc 100644
--- a/common/rc
+++ b/common/rc
@@ -4956,13 +4956,17 @@ _save_coredump()
local core_hash="$(_md5_checksum "$path")"
local out_file="$RESULT_BASE/$seqnum.core.$core_hash"
- if [ -s "$out_file" ]; then
- rm -f "$path"
- return
- fi
- rm -f "$out_file"
+ for dump in "$out_file"*; do
+ if [ -s "$dump" ]; then
+ rm -f "$path"
+ return 0
+ fi
+ done
mv "$path" "$out_file"
+ test -z "$COREDUMP_COMPRESSOR" && return 0
+
+ $COREDUMP_COMPRESSOR -f "$out_file"
}
init_rc
