[PATCH v5 7/8] x86: Add support for ZSTD compressed kernel

Nick Terrell
2020-04-08T21:56:26Z

* Add support for zstd compressed kernel
* Bump the heap size for zstd.
* Update the documentation.

Integrates the ZSTD decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.

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.

This patch has been boot tested with both a zstd and gzip compressed
kernel on i386 and x86_64 using buildroot and QEMU.

Additionally, this has been tested in production on x86_64 devices.
We saw a 2 second boot time reduction by switching kernel compression
from xz to zstd.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
---
Documentation/x86/boot.rst | 6 +++---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 5 ++++-
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 4 ++++
arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h | 6 ++++--
5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
index fa7ddc0428c8..0404e99dc1d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
@@ -782,9 +782,9 @@ Protocol: 2.08+
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), LZMA
- (magic number 5D 00), XZ (magic number FD 37), and LZ4 (magic number
- 02 21). The uncompressed payload is currently always ELF (magic
- number 7F 45 4C 46).
+ (magic number 5D 00), XZ (magic number FD 37), LZ4 (magic number
+ 02 21) and ZSTD (magic number 28 B5). The uncompressed payload is
+ currently always ELF (magic number 7F 45 4C 46).

============ ==============
Field name: payload_length
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 886fa8368256..912f783bc01a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
+ select HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
select HAVE_KPROBES
select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
select HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 7619742f91c9..471e61400a2e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD := y
KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n

targets := vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.lzma \
- vmlinux.bin.xz vmlinux.bin.lzo vmlinux.bin.lz4
+ vmlinux.bin.xz vmlinux.bin.lzo vmlinux.bin.lz4 vmlinux.bin.zst

KBUILD_CFLAGS := -m$(BITS) -O2
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing $(call cc-option, -fPIE, -fPIC)
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.lzo: $(vmlinux.bin.all-y) FORCE
$(call if_changed,lzo)
$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.lz4: $(vmlinux.bin.all-y) FORCE
$(call if_changed,lz4)
+$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.zst: $(vmlinux.bin.all-y) FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,zstd)

suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP) := gz
suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2) := bz2
@@ -152,6 +154,7 @@ suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA) := lzma
suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ) := xz
suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO) := lzo
suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4) := lz4
+suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD) := zst

quiet_cmd_mkpiggy = MKPIGGY $@
cmd_mkpiggy = $(obj)/mkpiggy $< > $@
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index 9652d5c2afda..39e592d0e0b4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ static int lines, cols;
#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4
#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unlz4.c"
#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD
+#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unzstd.c"
+#endif
/*
* NOTE: When adding a new decompressor, please update the analysis in
* ../header.S.
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h
index 680c320363db..d6dd43d25d9f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h
@@ -24,9 +24,11 @@
# error "Invalid value for CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN"
#endif

-#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2
+#if defined(CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2)
# define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x400000
-#else /* !CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 */
+#elif defined(CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD)
+# define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x30000
+#else
# define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x10000
#endif

--
2.26.0