Re: [PATCH resend] scripts: teach extract-vmlinux about LZ4 and ZSTD
From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Sat Jul 07 2018 - 22:05:04 EST
2018-07-07 9:15 GMT+09:00 Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Note that the LZ4 signature is different than that of modern LZ4 as we
> use the "legacy" format which suffers from some downsides like inability
> to disable compression.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> The first time this was sent I managed to screw up both the subject and
> scissors line, so it's likely whatever filter you're using didn't notice
> the patch inside a thread.
Sorry for the delay.
Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks!
> ZSTD compression for vmlinux is not yet in, but being able to unpack it
> can't hurt. LZ4 is in for quite a while.
>
>
> scripts/extract-vmlinux | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/extract-vmlinux b/scripts/extract-vmlinux
> index 5061abcc2540..e6239f39abad 100755
> --- a/scripts/extract-vmlinux
> +++ b/scripts/extract-vmlinux
> @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ try_decompress '\3757zXZ\000' abcde unxz
> try_decompress 'BZh' xy bunzip2
> try_decompress '\135\0\0\0' xxx unlzma
> try_decompress '\211\114\132' xy 'lzop -d'
> +try_decompress '\002!L\030' xxx 'lz4 -d'
> +try_decompress '(\265/\375' xxx unzstd
>
> # Bail out:
> echo "$me: Cannot find vmlinux." >&2
> --
> 2.18.0
>
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada