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Subject[RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels
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This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compressed kernel and initial ramdisk on
the x86 and ARM architectures.

According to http://code.google.com/p/lz4/, LZ4 is a very fast lossless
compression algorithm and also features an extremely fast decoder.

Kernel Decompression APIs are based on implementation by Yann Collet
(http://code.google.com/p/lz4/source/checkout).
De/compression Tools are also provided from the site above.

The initial test result on ARM(v7) based board shows that the size of kernel
with LZ4 compressed is 8% bigger than LZO compressed but the decompressing
speed is faster(especially under the enabled unaligned memory access).

Test: 3.4 based kernel built with many modules
Uncompressed kernel size: 13MB
lzo: 6.3MB, 301ms
lz4: 6.8MB, 251ms(167ms, with enabled unaligned memory access)

It seems that it’s worth trying LZ4 compressed kernel image or ramdisk
for making the kernel boot more faster.

Thanks,
Kyungsik


Kyungsik Lee (4):
decompressors: add lz4 decompressor module
lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernels
arm: add support for LZ4-compressed kernels
x86: add support for LZ4-compressed kernels

arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore | 1 +
arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 3 +-
arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c | 4 +
arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lz4.S | 6 +
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 5 +-
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 4 +
include/linux/decompress/unlz4.h | 10 ++
include/linux/lz4.h | 62 +++++++++++
init/Kconfig | 13 ++-
lib/Kconfig | 7 ++
lib/Makefile | 2 +
lib/decompress.c | 5 +
lib/decompress_unlz4.c | 199 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
lib/lz4/Makefile | 1 +
lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c | 199 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
lib/lz4/lz4defs.h | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++
scripts/Makefile.lib | 5 +
usr/Kconfig | 9 ++
20 files changed, 663 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lz4.S
create mode 100644 include/linux/decompress/unlz4.h
create mode 100644 include/linux/lz4.h
create mode 100644 lib/decompress_unlz4.c
create mode 100644 lib/lz4/Makefile
create mode 100644 lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c
create mode 100644 lib/lz4/lz4defs.h

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