[PATCH 2/2] ARM: add support for xz kernel decompression

From: Michael Opdenacker
Date: Thu Feb 16 2012 - 09:55:06 EST


Changes applied on Linus' tree

This patch adds support for xz compression on the ARM architecture.
xz achieves slighly higher compression than LZMA.

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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.xzkern.S | 6 ++++++
5 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.xzkern.S

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index a48aecc..c34ff1e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ config ARM
select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
+ select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
select HAVE_IRQ_WORK
select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore
index e0936a1..d1977f4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ lib1funcs.S
piggy.gzip
piggy.lzo
piggy.lzma
+piggy.xzkern
vmlinux
vmlinux.lds

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
index cf0a64c..5a2972b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ SEDFLAGS = s/TEXT_START/$(ZTEXTADDR)/;s/BSS_START/$(ZBSSADDR)/
suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP) = gzip
suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO) = lzo
suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA) = lzma
+suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ) = xzkern

# Borrowed libfdt files for the ATAG compatibility mode

@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ targets := vmlinux vmlinux.lds \
lib1funcs.o lib1funcs.S font.o font.c head.o misc.o $(OBJS)

# Make sure files are removed during clean
-extra-y += piggy.gzip piggy.lzo piggy.lzma lib1funcs.S $(libfdt) $(libfdt_hdrs)
+extra-y += piggy.gzip piggy.lzo piggy.lzma piggy.xz lib1funcs.S $(libfdt) $(libfdt_hdrs)

ifeq ($(CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER),y)
ORIG_CFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c
index 07be5a2..0ecd8b4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ extern void error(char *);
#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unlzma.c"
#endif

+#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ
+#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unxz.c"
+#endif
+
int do_decompress(u8 *input, int len, u8 *output, void (*error)(char *x))
{
return decompress(input, len, NULL, NULL, output, NULL, error);
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.xzkern.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.xzkern.S
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5703f30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.xzkern.S
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+ .section .piggydata,#alloc
+ .globl input_data
+input_data:
+ .incbin "arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.xzkern"
+ .globl input_data_end
+input_data_end:
--
1.7.4.1

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