linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel

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Date:   Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:22:42 -0700
From:   Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
To:     Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
CC:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <x86@...nel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Yann Collet <cyan@...com>, Rene Rebe <rene@...ctcode.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel

Hi,

This patch set adds support for a ZSTD-compressed kernel and ramdisk
images in the kernel boot process. It only integrates the support with
x86, though the first patch is generic to all architectures.

Zstandard requires slightly more memory during the kernel decompression
on x86 (192 KB vs 64 KB), and the memory usage is independent of the
window size.

Zstandard requires memory proprortional to the window size used during
compression for decompressing the ramdisk image, since streaming mode is
used. Newer versions of zstd (1.3.2+) list the window size of a file
with `zstd -lv <file>'. The absolute maximum amount of memory required
is just over 8 MB.

Thanks,
Nick Terrell

Nick Terrell (2):
  lib: Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel
  x86: Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel

 Documentation/x86/boot.txt        |   6 +-
 arch/x86/Kconfig                  |   1 +
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile |   5 +-
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c   |   4 +
 arch/x86/boot/header.S            |   8 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h       |   6 +-
 include/linux/decompress/unzstd.h |  26 +++
 init/Kconfig                      |  14 +-
 lib/Kconfig                       |   4 +
 lib/Makefile                      |   1 +
 lib/decompress.c                  |   5 +
 lib/decompress_unzstd.c           | 341 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/xxhash.c                      |  21 ++-
 lib/zstd/decompress.c             |   2 +
 lib/zstd/fse_decompress.c         |   9 +-
 scripts/Makefile.lib              |  15 ++
 usr/Kconfig                       |  22 +++
 17 files changed, 465 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/decompress/unzstd.h
 create mode 100644 lib/decompress_unzstd.c

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