create_snapshot: Create snapshot patch comparing two partition images
This is a host based tool wherein it compares two Android images and generates snapshot patches which are similar to Android OTA format.
There are few advantages:
1: All the computation of snapshot logic is pushed onto the host.
2: Each partition can have different compression algorithm.
3: All the libsnapshot_cow changes can be tested very quickly.
Here is the test run. This compares two builds which are 24 hours apart.
```
create_snapshot --source=$ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT/system.img --target=./images/system.img --compression="zstd" &
create_snapshot --source=$ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT/product.img --target=./images/product.img --compression="lz4" &
create_snapshot --source=$ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT/vendor.img --target=./images/vendor.img &
create_snapshot --source=$ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT/system_ext.img --target=./images/system_ext.img --compression="gz" &
create_snapshot --source=$ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT/vendor_dlkm.img --target=./images/vendor_dlkm.img &
echo "Waiting for snapshot patch creation"
wait $(jobs -p)
echo "Snapshot patch creation completed"
```
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Waiting for snapshot patch creation
Snapshot patch: vendor_dlkm.patch created successfully
Snapshot patch: vendor.patch created successfully
Snapshot patch: system_ext.patch created successfully
Snapshot patch: product.patch created successfully
Snapshot patch: system.patch created successfully
Snapshot patch creation completed
real 0m3.848s
user 0m14.239s
sys 0m8.045s
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It takes ~4 seconds to generate the snapshot patches on the host. Snapshot patches are named as <partition-name>.patch.
Bug: 299011882
Test: create_snapshot between two builds as mentioned above.
Change-Id: Ic87dd3349a866b5626fa03f1f879f417a8116cc2
Signed-off-by: Akilesh Kailash <akailash@google.com>
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