linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: add fast lzo decompressor

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Message-ID: <49D3D4C0.1080506@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:55:28 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andreas Robinson <andr345@...il.com>
CC:	Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: add fast lzo decompressor

Andreas Robinson wrote:
> 
> Perhaps the system can default to the safe decompressor for normal use
> and choose the fast one if STATIC is defined or when system_state ==
> SYSTEM_BOOTING?
> 

Do we really need two pieces of code?  What if we have memory corruption 
during early boot - it seems we'd want to at least try to catch that 
with an error message rather than just crashing.

	-hpa
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