31 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi
14 Jan, 2011
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Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This implements the API defined in which is
used for kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. This patch together
with the first patch is enough for XZ-compressed initramfs and initrd;
XZ-compressed kernel will need arch-specific changes.The buffering requirements described in decompress_unxz.c are stricter
than with gzip, so the relevant changes should be done to the
arch-specific code when adding support for XZ-compressed kernel.
Similarly, the heap size in arch-specific pre-boot code may need to be
increased (30 KiB is enough).The XZ decompressor needs memmove(), memeq() (memcmp() == 0), and
memzero() (memset(ptr, 0, size)), which aren't available in all
arch-specific pre-boot environments. I'm including simple versions in
decompress_unxz.c, but a cleaner solution would naturally be nicer.Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Alain Knaff
Cc: Albin Tonnerre
Cc: Phillip Lougher
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Currently users of mm.h need to include to use the macros
malloc() and free() provided by mm.h. This fixes it.Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Alain Knaff
Cc: Albin Tonnerre
Cc: Phillip Lougher
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
set_error_fn() has become a useless complication after c1e7c3ae59
("bzip2/lzma/gzip: pre-boot malloc doesn't return NULL on failure") fixed
the use of error() in malloc(). Only decompress_unlzma.c had some use for
it and that was easy to change too.This also gets rid of the static function pointer "error", which
should have been marked as __initdata.Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Alain Knaff
Cc: Albin Tonnerre
Cc: Phillip Lougher
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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The ARM kernel decompressor wants to be able to relocate r/w data
independently from the rest of the image, and we do this by ensuring that
r/w data has global visibility. Define STATIC_RW_DATA to be empty to
achieve this.Signed-off-by: Russell King
Cc: Alain Knaff
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Jan, 2010
1 commit
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This patch series adds generic support for creating and extracting
LZO-compressed kernel images, as well as support for using such images on
the x86 and ARM architectures, and support for creating and using
LZO-compressed initrd and initramfs images.Russell King said:
: Testing on a Cortex A9 model:
: - lzo decompressor is 65% of the time gzip takes to decompress a kernel
: - lzo kernel is 9% larger than a gzip kernel
:
: which I'm happy to say confirms your figures when comparing the two.
:
: However, when comparing your new gzip code to the old gzip code:
: - new is 99% of the size of the old code
: - new takes 42% of the time to decompress than the old code
:
: What this means is that for a proper comparison, the results get even better:
: - lzo is 7.5% larger than the old gzip'd kernel image
: - lzo takes 28% of the time that the old gzip code took
:
: So the expense seems definitely worth the effort. The only reason I
: can think of ever using gzip would be if you needed the additional
: compression (eg, because you have limited flash to store the image.)
:
: I would argue that the default for ARM should therefore be LZO.This patch:
The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at
extraction. Here are some figures for an ARM board I'm working on:Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo
gzip 1.61Mo 0.72s
lzo 1.75Mo 0.48sSo for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's
much faster to extract, at least in that case.This part contains:
- Makefile routine to support lzo compression
- Fixes to the existing lzo compressor so that it can be used in
compressed kernels
- wrapper around the existing lzo1x_decompress, as it only extracts one
block at a time, while we need to extract a whole file here
- config dialog for kernel compression[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Tested-by: Russell King
Acked-by: Russell King
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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The trivial malloc implementation used in the pre-boot environment by the
decompressors returns a bad pointer on failure (falling through after
calling error). This is doubly wrong - the callers expect malloc to
return NULL on failure, second the error function is intended to be
used by the decompressors to propagate errors to *their* callers. The
decompressors have no access to any state set by the error function.Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
08 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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Fix and improve comments in decompress/generic.h that describe the
decompressor API. Also remove an unused definition, and rename INBUF_LEN
in lib/decompress_inflate.c to conform to bzip2/lzma naming.Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Centralize the compression format detection to a common routine in the
lib directory, and use it for both initramfs and initrd.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
05 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Impact: Replaces inflate.c with a wrapper around zlib_inflate; new library code
This is the first part of the bzip2/lzma patch
The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for
compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both
compressors give smaller sizes than gzip. Lzma's decompresses faster
than bzip2.It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two
compressors.The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by
the udpcast projectThis version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28
This part contains:
- changed inflate.c to accomodate rest of patch
- implementation of bzip2 compression (not used at this stage yet)
- implementation of lzma compression (not used at this stage yet)
- Makefile routines to support bzip2 and lzma kernel compressionSigned-off-by: Alain Knaff
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
