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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> |
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| lzo | ||
| reed_solomon | ||
| zlib_deflate | ||
| zlib_inflate | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| argv_split.c | ||
| atomic64.c | ||
| audit.c | ||
| bcd.c | ||
| bitmap.c | ||
| bitrev.c | ||
| bug.c | ||
| bust_spinlocks.c | ||
| check_signature.c | ||
| checksum.c | ||
| cmdline.c | ||
| cpumask.c | ||
| crc-ccitt.c | ||
| crc-itu-t.c | ||
| crc-t10dif.c | ||
| crc7.c | ||
| crc16.c | ||
| crc32.c | ||
| crc32defs.h | ||
| ctype.c | ||
| debug_locks.c | ||
| debugobjects.c | ||
| dec_and_lock.c | ||
| decompress_bunzip2.c | ||
| decompress_inflate.c | ||
| decompress_unlzma.c | ||
| decompress_unlzo.c | ||
| decompress.c | ||
| devres.c | ||
| div64.c | ||
| dma-debug.c | ||
| dump_stack.c | ||
| dynamic_debug.c | ||
| extable.c | ||
| fault-inject.c | ||
| find_last_bit.c | ||
| find_next_bit.c | ||
| flex_array.c | ||
| gcd.c | ||
| gen_crc32table.c | ||
| genalloc.c | ||
| halfmd4.c | ||
| hexdump.c | ||
| hweight.c | ||
| idr.c | ||
| inflate.c | ||
| int_sqrt.c | ||
| iomap_copy.c | ||
| iomap.c | ||
| iommu-helper.c | ||
| ioremap.c | ||
| irq_regs.c | ||
| is_single_threaded.c | ||
| kasprintf.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.debug | ||
| Kconfig.kgdb | ||
| Kconfig.kmemcheck | ||
| kernel_lock.c | ||
| klist.c | ||
| kobject_uevent.c | ||
| kobject.c | ||
| kref.c | ||
| lcm.c | ||
| libcrc32c.c | ||
| list_debug.c | ||
| lmb.c | ||
| locking-selftest-hardirq.h | ||
| locking-selftest-mutex.h | ||
| locking-selftest-rlock-hardirq.h | ||
| locking-selftest-rlock-softirq.h | ||
| locking-selftest-rlock.h | ||
| locking-selftest-rsem.h | ||
| locking-selftest-softirq.h | ||
| locking-selftest-spin-hardirq.h | ||
| locking-selftest-spin-softirq.h | ||
| locking-selftest-spin.h | ||
| locking-selftest-wlock-hardirq.h | ||
| locking-selftest-wlock-softirq.h | ||
| locking-selftest-wlock.h | ||
| locking-selftest-wsem.h | ||
| locking-selftest.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| nlattr.c | ||
| parser.c | ||
| percpu_counter.c | ||
| plist.c | ||
| prio_heap.c | ||
| prio_tree.c | ||
| proportions.c | ||
| radix-tree.c | ||
| random32.c | ||
| ratelimit.c | ||
| rational.c | ||
| rbtree.c | ||
| reciprocal_div.c | ||
| rwsem-spinlock.c | ||
| rwsem.c | ||
| scatterlist.c | ||
| sha1.c | ||
| show_mem.c | ||
| smp_processor_id.c | ||
| sort.c | ||
| spinlock_debug.c | ||
| string_helpers.c | ||
| string.c | ||
| swiotlb.c | ||
| syscall.c | ||
| textsearch.c | ||
| ts_bm.c | ||
| ts_fsm.c | ||
| ts_kmp.c | ||
| vsprintf.c | ||