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diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/doc/rcu-test-image.txt b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/doc/rcu-test-image.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..66efb59a1bd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/doc/rcu-test-image.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +This document describes one way to created the rcu-test-image file +that contains the filesystem used by the guest-OS kernel. There are +probably much better ways of doing this, and this filesystem could no +doubt be smaller. It is probably also possible to simply download +an appropriate image from any number of places. + +That said, here are the commands: + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +dd if=/dev/zero of=rcu-test-image bs=400M count=1 +mkfs.ext3 ./rcu-test-image +sudo mount -o loop ./rcu-test-image /mnt + +# Replace "precise" below with your favorite Ubuntu release. +# Empirical evidence says this image will work for 64-bit, but... +# Note that debootstrap does take a few minutes to run. Or longer. +sudo debootstrap --verbose --arch i386 precise /mnt http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu +cat << '___EOF___' | sudo dd of=/mnt/etc/fstab +# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM +# +/dev/vda / ext3 defaults 1 1 +dev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 +tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 +devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 +sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 +proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 +___EOF___ +sudo umount /mnt +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + +References: + + http://sripathikodi.blogspot.com/2010/02/creating-kvm-bootable-fedora-system.html + https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/CreateGuests + https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOSVMBuilder + http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/UbuntuKVMWalkthrough + http://www.moe.co.uk/2011/01/07/pci_add_option_rom-failed-to-find-romfile-pxe-rtl8139-bin/ -- "apt-get install kvm-pxe" + http://www.landley.net/writing/rootfs-howto.html + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpio + http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/UbuntuKVMWalkthrough |