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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 23:25:15 -0400 From: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>, Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@...il.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>, "linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>, "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>, "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Petr Malat <oss@...at.biz>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>, Patrick Williams <patrickw3@...com>, Michael van der Westhuizen <rmikey@...com>, "mingo@...nel.org" <mingo@...nel.org>, Patrick Williams <patrick@...cx.xyz>, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>, Norbert Lange <nolange79@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/8] init: add support for zstd compressed kernel On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 11:09:39PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 02:01:50AM +0000, Nick Terrell wrote: > > > > > > > On Jul 7, 2020, at 6:11 PM, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 08:46:00PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote: > > >> From: Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com> > > >> > > >> * Adds the zstd cmd to scripts/Makefile.lib > > >> * Adds the HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD and KERNEL_ZSTD options > > >> > > >> Architecture specific support is still needed for decompression. > > >> > > >> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib > > >> index 916b2f7f7098..d960f8815f87 100644 > > >> --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib > > >> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib > > >> @@ -413,6 +413,21 @@ quiet_cmd_xzkern = XZKERN $@ > > >> quiet_cmd_xzmisc = XZMISC $@ > > >> cmd_xzmisc = cat $(real-prereqs) | $(XZ) --check=crc32 --lzma2=dict=1MiB > $@ > > >> > > >> +# ZSTD > > >> +# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> +# Appends the uncompressed size of the data using size_append. The .zst > > >> +# format has the size information available at the beginning of the file too, > > >> +# but it's in a more complex format and it's good to avoid changing the part > > >> +# of the boot code that reads the uncompressed size. > > >> +# Note that the bytes added by size_append will make the zstd tool think that > > >> +# the file is corrupt. This is expected. > > >> + > > >> +quiet_cmd_zstd = ZSTD $@ > > >> +cmd_zstd = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | \ > > > ^^ should just be $(real-prereqs) > > >> + zstd -19 && \ > > >> + $(call size_append, $(filter-out FORCE,$^))) > $@ || \ > > > ^^ size_append does not take arguments. It's used as just > > > $(size_append) and will always output shell code to print the > > > total size of $(real-prereqs) -- see other compressor command > > > definitions. > > > > Yeah, when I wrote this code, this was how the rest of the compressors were implemented. > > I noticed that they had all been updated when I was responding to Norbert Lange earlier. > > I will submit a v7 shortly with the updated command. > > > > Thanks for the review, > > Nick > > > > > > Looks like it changed in 5.1. I guess this patch has been floating > around for quite some time :) Here's hoping v8 is the last one! Err, I meant v7. Hope I didn't jinx it.
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