[PATCH] kbuild: Add KDEB_COMPRESS_LEVEL to control compression level

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Fri Mar 07 2025 - 10:13:54 EST


From: Matt Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Give users more control to tradeoff compression time vs compressed size
when building debian packages with a new KDEB_COMPRESS_LEVEL option.

Here are some examples of using KDEB_COMPRESS=xz with
KDEB_COMPRESS_LEVEL=1 through to KDEB_COMPRESS_LEVEL=6 with the
bindeb-pkg target:

Level Time to compress Compressed size (bytes)
----- ---------------- -----------------------
1 0m36.771s 476909176
2 0m40.335s 474832644
3 0m43.635s 473845600
4 1m13.839s 472260012
5 1m18.657s 464442676
6 1m20.658s 464355000

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/package/debian/rules | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/package/debian/rules b/scripts/package/debian/rules
index ca07243bd5cd..616ecf1d4d1b 100755
--- a/scripts/package/debian/rules
+++ b/scripts/package/debian/rules
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ define binary
$(Q)dh_fixperms $(DH_OPTIONS)
$(Q)dh_gencontrol $(DH_OPTIONS) -- -f$(call mk-files,$@)
$(Q)dh_md5sums $(DH_OPTIONS)
- $(Q)dh_builddeb $(DH_OPTIONS) -- $(addprefix -Z,$(KDEB_COMPRESS))
+ $(Q)dh_builddeb $(DH_OPTIONS) -- $(addprefix -Z,$(KDEB_COMPRESS)) $(addprefix -z,$(KDEB_COMPRESS_LEVEL))
endef

.PHONY: $(binary-targets)
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