[RFC PATCH v2 3/4] arm: Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel

Kyungsik Lee
2013-02-26T06:25:40Z

This patch integrates the LZ4 decompression code to the arm pre-boot code.
And it depends on two patchs below

lib: Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel
decompressor: Add LZ4 decompressor module

Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>

v2:
- Apply CFLAGS, -Os to decompress.o to improve decompress
performance during boot-up process
---
arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore | 1 +
arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 6 +++++-
arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c | 4 ++++
arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lz4.S | 6 ++++++
5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lz4.S

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 67874b8..0f9b363 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ config ARM
select HAVE_IDE if PCI || ISA || PCMCIA
select HAVE_IRQ_WORK
select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
+ select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore
index f79a08e..47279aa 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ piggy.gzip
piggy.lzo
piggy.lzma
piggy.xzkern
+piggy.lz4
vmlinux
vmlinux.lds

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 5cad8a6..2249d52 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ endif
AFLAGS_head.o += -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
HEAD = head.o
OBJS += misc.o decompress.o
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4),y)
+CFLAGS_decompress.o := -Os
+endif
FONTC = $(srctree)/drivers/video/console/font_acorn_8x8.c

# string library code (-Os is enforced to keep it much smaller)
@@ -88,6 +91,7 @@ suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP) = gzip
suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO) = lzo
suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA) = lzma
suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ) = xzkern
+suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4) = lz4

# Borrowed libfdt files for the ATAG compatibility mode

@@ -112,7 +116,7 @@ targets := vmlinux vmlinux.lds \
font.o font.c head.o misc.o $(OBJS)

# Make sure files are removed during clean
-extra-y += piggy.gzip piggy.lzo piggy.lzma piggy.xzkern \
+extra-y += piggy.gzip piggy.lzo piggy.lzma piggy.xzkern piggy.lz4 \
lib1funcs.S ashldi3.S $(libfdt) $(libfdt_hdrs)

ifeq ($(CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER),y)
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c
index 9deb56a..a95f071 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ extern char * strstr(const char * s1, const char *s2);
#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unxz.c"
#endif

+#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4
+#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unlz4.c"
+#endif
+
int do_decompress(u8 *input, int len, u8 *output, void (*error)(char *x))
{
return decompress(input, len, NULL, NULL, output, NULL, error);
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lz4.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lz4.S
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d9a575
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lz4.S
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+ .section .piggydata,#alloc
+ .globl input_data
+input_data:
+ .incbin "arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lz4"
+ .globl input_data_end
+input_data_end:
--
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