[PATCH 04/10] zram: lz4hc: pre-initialize dictionary stream in setup_params

From: Sergey Senozhatsky

Date: Mon Oct 05 2026 - 08:22:41 EST


Pre-initialize the dictionary stream once in lz4hc_setup_params(), store
it in params->drv_data, and memcpy() it into the per-CPU stream before
LZ4_compress_HC_continue(), matching backend_lz4. This avoids resetting
and hashing the dictionary on every page compression.

This also rejects dictionaries larger than 64 KB at device init time
(matching backend_lz4), instead of failing every page compression with
-EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/zram/backend_lz4hc.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/backend_lz4hc.c b/drivers/block/zram/backend_lz4hc.c
index 5c009835a684..f3656c27af21 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/backend_lz4hc.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/backend_lz4hc.c
@@ -18,10 +18,20 @@ struct lz4hc_ctx {

static void lz4hc_release_params(struct zcomp_params *params)
{
+ LZ4_streamHC_t *dict_stream = params->drv_data;
+
+ params->drv_data = NULL;
+ if (!dict_stream)
+ return;
+
+ vfree(dict_stream);
}

static int lz4hc_setup_params(struct zcomp_params *params)
{
+ LZ4_streamHC_t *dict_stream;
+ int ret;
+
if (params->level == ZCOMP_PARAM_NOT_SET) {
params->level = LZ4HC_DEFAULT_CLEVEL;
} else if (params->level < 1 || params->level > LZ4HC_MAX_CLEVEL) {
@@ -35,6 +45,21 @@ static int lz4hc_setup_params(struct zcomp_params *params)
return -EINVAL;
}

+ if (!params->dict || !params->dict_sz)
+ return 0;
+
+ dict_stream = vzalloc(sizeof(*dict_stream));
+ if (!dict_stream)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ LZ4_resetStreamHC(dict_stream, params->level);
+ ret = LZ4_loadDictHC(dict_stream, params->dict, params->dict_sz);
+ if (ret != params->dict_sz) {
+ vfree(dict_stream);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ params->drv_data = dict_stream;
+
return 0;
}

@@ -93,11 +118,7 @@ static int lz4hc_compress(struct zcomp_params *params, struct zcomp_ctx *ctx,
zctx->mem);
} else {
/* Cstrm needs to be reset */
- LZ4_resetStreamHC(zctx->cstrm, params->level);
- ret = LZ4_loadDictHC(zctx->cstrm, params->dict,
- params->dict_sz);
- if (ret != params->dict_sz)
- return -EINVAL;
+ memcpy(zctx->cstrm, params->drv_data, sizeof(*zctx->cstrm));
ret = LZ4_compress_HC_continue(zctx->cstrm, req->src, req->dst,
req->src_len, req->dst_len);
}
--
2.56.0.rc1.315.gc6ed9934b7-goog