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authorNick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>2020-07-30 22:08:36 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-07-31 12:49:08 +0300
commit48f7ddf785af24aa380f3282d8d4400883d0099e (patch)
tree2966f60c6983ba2e09c0972da2c3cca51eecf140 /init
parent4963bb2b89884bbdb7e33e6a09c159551e9627aa (diff)
downloadlinux-48f7ddf785af24aa380f3282d8d4400883d0099e.tar.xz
init: Add support for zstd compressed kernel
- Add the zstd and zstd22 cmds to scripts/Makefile.lib - Add the HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD and KERNEL_ZSTD options Architecture specific support is still needed for decompression. Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730190841.2071656-4-nickrterrell@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 0498af567f70..2b6409fec53f 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -191,13 +191,16 @@ config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
bool
+config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
+ bool
+
config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
bool
choice
prompt "Kernel compression mode"
default KERNEL_GZIP
- depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
+ depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
help
The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
@@ -276,6 +279,16 @@ config KERNEL_LZ4
is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
faster than LZO.
+config KERNEL_ZSTD
+ bool "ZSTD"
+ depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
+ help
+ ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression
+ with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and
+ decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You
+ will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command
+ line tool is required for compression.
+
config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
bool "None"
depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED