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authorAlbin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>2010-01-09 01:42:42 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-01-11 20:34:04 +0300
commit7dd65feb6c603e13eba501c34c662259ab38e70e (patch)
tree5ec4bf4ab09310dce796fc7a2067c18d76b4aa75 /scripts
parentac4c2a3bbe5db5fc570b1d0ee1e474db7cb22585 (diff)
downloadlinux-7dd65feb6c603e13eba501c34c662259ab38e70e.tar.xz
lib: add support for LZO-compressed kernels
This patch series adds generic support for creating and extracting LZO-compressed kernel images, as well as support for using such images on the x86 and ARM architectures, and support for creating and using LZO-compressed initrd and initramfs images. Russell King said: : Testing on a Cortex A9 model: : - lzo decompressor is 65% of the time gzip takes to decompress a kernel : - lzo kernel is 9% larger than a gzip kernel : : which I'm happy to say confirms your figures when comparing the two. : : However, when comparing your new gzip code to the old gzip code: : - new is 99% of the size of the old code : - new takes 42% of the time to decompress than the old code : : What this means is that for a proper comparison, the results get even better: : - lzo is 7.5% larger than the old gzip'd kernel image : - lzo takes 28% of the time that the old gzip code took : : So the expense seems definitely worth the effort. The only reason I : can think of ever using gzip would be if you needed the additional : compression (eg, because you have limited flash to store the image.) : : I would argue that the default for ARM should therefore be LZO. This patch: The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at extraction. Here are some figures for an ARM board I'm working on: Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo gzip 1.61Mo 0.72s lzo 1.75Mo 0.48s So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's much faster to extract, at least in that case. This part contains: - Makefile routine to support lzo compression - Fixes to the existing lzo compressor so that it can be used in compressed kernels - wrapper around the existing lzo1x_decompress, as it only extracts one block at a time, while we need to extract a whole file here - config dialog for kernel compression [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/Makefile.lib5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index cd815ac2a50b..0fe48cd91ffa 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -235,3 +235,8 @@ quiet_cmd_lzma = LZMA $@
cmd_lzma = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | \
lzma -9 && $(call size_append, $(filter-out FORCE,$^))) > $@ || \
(rm -f $@ ; false)
+
+quiet_cmd_lzo = LZO $@
+cmd_lzo = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | \
+ lzop -9 && $(call size_append, $(filter-out FORCE,$^))) > $@ || \
+ (rm -f $@ ; false)