Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
x86: support XZ-compressed kernel
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
This integrates the XZ decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.

mkpiggy.c is updated to reserve about 32 KiB more buffer safety margin for
kernel decompression.  It is done unconditionally for all decompressors to
keep the code simpler.

The XZ decompressor needs around 30 KiB of heap, so the heap size is
increased to 32 KiB on both x86-32 and x86-64.

Documentation/x86/boot.txt is updated to list the XZ magic number.

With the x86 BCJ filter in XZ, XZ-compressed x86 kernel tends to be a few
percent smaller than the equivalent LZMA-compressed kernel.

Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
  • Loading branch information
Lasse Collin authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jan 13, 2011
1 parent 3ebe124 commit 3031480
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Showing 6 changed files with 14 additions and 10 deletions.
6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions Documentation/x86/boot.txt
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -622,9 +622,9 @@ Protocol: 2.08+
The payload may be compressed. The format of both the compressed and
uncompressed data should be determined using the standard magic
numbers. The currently supported compression formats are gzip
(magic numbers 1F 8B or 1F 9E), bzip2 (magic number 42 5A) and LZMA
(magic number 5D 00). The uncompressed payload is currently always ELF
(magic number 7F 45 4C 46).
(magic numbers 1F 8B or 1F 9E), bzip2 (magic number 42 5A), LZMA
(magic number 5D 00), and XZ (magic number FD 37). The uncompressed
payload is currently always ELF (magic number 7F 45 4C 46).

Field name: payload_length
Type: read
Expand Down
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions arch/x86/Kconfig
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
Expand Down
5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
# create a compressed vmlinux image from the original vmlinux
#

targets := vmlinux.lds vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.lzma vmlinux.bin.lzo head_$(BITS).o misc.o string.o cmdline.o early_serial_console.o piggy.o
targets := vmlinux.lds vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.lzma vmlinux.bin.xz vmlinux.bin.lzo head_$(BITS).o misc.o string.o cmdline.o early_serial_console.o piggy.o

KBUILD_CFLAGS := -m$(BITS) -D__KERNEL__ $(LINUX_INCLUDE) -O2
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -49,12 +49,15 @@ $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.bz2: $(vmlinux.bin.all-y) FORCE
$(call if_changed,bzip2)
$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.lzma: $(vmlinux.bin.all-y) FORCE
$(call if_changed,lzma)
$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.xz: $(vmlinux.bin.all-y) FORCE
$(call if_changed,xzkern)
$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.lzo: $(vmlinux.bin.all-y) FORCE
$(call if_changed,lzo)

suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP) := gz
suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2) := bz2
suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA) := lzma
suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ) := xz
suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO) := lzo

quiet_cmd_mkpiggy = MKPIGGY $@
Expand Down
4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ static int lines, cols;
#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unlzma.c"
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ
#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unxz.c"
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO
#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unlzo.c"
#endif
Expand Down
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])

offs = (olen > ilen) ? olen - ilen : 0;
offs += olen >> 12; /* Add 8 bytes for each 32K block */
offs += 32*1024 + 18; /* Add 32K + 18 bytes slack */
offs += 64*1024 + 128; /* Add 64K + 128 bytes slack */
offs = (offs+4095) & ~4095; /* Round to a 4K boundary */

printf(".section \".rodata..compressed\",\"a\",@progbits\n");
Expand Down
6 changes: 1 addition & 5 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -32,11 +32,7 @@
#define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x400000
#else /* !CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 */

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
#define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x7000
#else
#define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x4000
#endif
#define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x8000

#endif /* !CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 */

Expand Down

0 comments on commit 3031480

Please sign in to comment.