linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/boot/compressed: Use builtin mem functions for decompressor

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Date:   Wed, 19 Aug 2020 11:22:22 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@...il.com>,
        Gao Xiang <xiang@...nel.org>,
        Sven Schmidt <4sschmid@...ormatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/boot/compressed: Use builtin mem functions for decompressor

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 11:14 AM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> Did anyone pick this up? (Ingo can you snag it, or maybe akpm who took
> the LZ4-specific patch already?) This looks sane to me and provides some
> surprising performance benefits. :)

I'll take this and Arvind's freestanding patch too.

             Linus