[PATCH v2 3/3] alpha: support the remaining kernel compression formats

From: Matt Turner

Date: Sat Oct 17 2026 - 13:06:47 EST


Nothing about the boot stub is specific to gzip, so wire up bzip2, lz4,
lzma, lzo, xz and zstd as well: select the matching HAVE_KERNEL_*
symbol, add a suffix-y entry and a compression rule for the piggy-backed
image, and include the decompressor into the stub's misc.c.

Only gzip's trailer already carries the uncompressed size, so the other
formats use the _with_size variants; output_len, which vmlinux.scr takes
from the last 4 bytes of the payload, then works for all of them. The
stub passes it to __decompress(), which zstd requires.

Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/alpha/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
arch/alpha/boot/compressed/Makefile | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
arch/alpha/boot/compressed/misc.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
index 2688bb00f175..92cc7bb8d29a 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
@@ -30,7 +30,13 @@ config ALPHA
select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
select HAVE_GUP_FAST
+ select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
+ select HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4
+ select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
+ select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
+ select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
+ select HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD
select HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_8KB
select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
diff --git a/arch/alpha/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/alpha/boot/compressed/Makefile
index fe7eac100617..692a29588aad 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/alpha/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@
OBJECTS := head.o misc.o trampoline.o piggy.o
OBJECTS += memcpy.o memmove.o memset.o
OBJECTS += __divqu.o __remqu.o __divlu.o __remlu.o
-targets := vmlinux.lds vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz
+targets := vmlinux.lds vmlinux vmlinux.bin
+targets += vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.lz4
+targets += vmlinux.bin.lzma vmlinux.bin.lzo vmlinux.bin.xz
+targets += vmlinux.bin.zst
targets += $(OBJECTS)

# The stub runs before the kernel has identified the CPU it booted on, so
@@ -44,18 +47,42 @@ AFLAGS___remlu.o := -DREM -DINTSIZE
$(addprefix $(obj)/,__divqu.o __remqu.o __divlu.o __remlu.o): $(srctree)/arch/alpha/lib/divide.S FORCE
$(call if_changed_dep,as_o_S)

+# zstd's decompressor uses __builtin_ctzll()/__builtin_clzll(). Those are
+# inline code only with the CIX extension, which the base instruction set
+# the stub is built for does not have, so they become calls to libgcc's
+# __ctzdi2/__clzdi2.
+LIBGCC := $(shell $(CC) -print-libgcc-file-name)
+
LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -X --orphan-handling=warn -T
-$(obj)/vmlinux: $(obj)/vmlinux.lds $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(OBJECTS)) FORCE
+$(obj)/vmlinux: $(obj)/vmlinux.lds $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(OBJECTS)) $(LIBGCC) FORCE
$(call if_changed,ld)

OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinux.bin := -R .comment -R .note -S
$(obj)/vmlinux.bin: vmlinux FORCE
$(call if_changed,objcopy)

+suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2) := bz2
suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP) := gz
+suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4) := lz4
+suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA) := lzma
+suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO) := lzo
+suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ) := xz
+suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD) := zst

+$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.bz2: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,bzip2_with_size)
$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.gz: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin FORCE
$(call if_changed,gzip)
+$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.lz4: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,lz4_with_size)
+$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.lzma: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,lzma_with_size)
+$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.lzo: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,lzo_with_size)
+$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.xz: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,xzkern_with_size)
+$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.zst: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,zstd22_with_size)

LDFLAGS_piggy.o := -r --format binary --oformat elf64-alpha -T
$(obj)/piggy.o: $(obj)/vmlinux.scr $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.$(suffix-y) FORCE
diff --git a/arch/alpha/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/alpha/boot/compressed/misc.c
index 72998582be68..1b5b8e716613 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@
#define STATIC static
#define memzero(s, n) memset((s), 0, (n))

+/*
+ * decompress_unxz.c supplies its own memmove() unless the identifier is
+ * already a macro. We link our own build of arch/alpha/lib/memmove.S,
+ * which is better, so take that instead.
+ */
+#define memmove memmove
+
extern char input_data[];
extern int input_len;
/* output_len is inserted by the linker, possibly at an unaligned address */
@@ -42,10 +49,34 @@ void __noreturn error(char *m)
__halt();
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2
+#include "../../../../lib/decompress_bunzip2.c"
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP
#include "../../../../lib/decompress_inflate.c"
#endif

+#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4
+#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unlz4.c"
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA
+#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unlzma.c"
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO
+#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unlzo.c"
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ
+#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unxz.c"
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD
+#include "../../../../lib/decompress_unzstd.c"
+#endif
+
/* Scratch heap for the decompressors, larger than any of them needs. */
#define STUB_HEAP_SIZE (4 * 1024 * 1024)


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