This patch series adds generic support for creating and extracting
LZO-compressed kernel images, as well as support for using such images on
the x86 and ARM architectures, and support for creating and using
LZO-compressed initrd and initramfs images.
Russell King said:
: Testing on a Cortex A9 model:
: - lzo decompressor is 65% of the time gzip takes to decompress a kernel
: - lzo kernel is 9% larger than a gzip kernel
:
: which I'm happy to say confirms your figures when comparing the two.
:
: However, when comparing your new gzip code to the old gzip code:
: - new is 99% of the size of the old code
: - new takes 42% of the time to decompress than the old code
:
: What this means is that for a proper comparison, the results get even better:
: - lzo is 7.5% larger than the old gzip'd kernel image
: - lzo takes 28% of the time that the old gzip code took
:
: So the expense seems definitely worth the effort. The only reason I
: can think of ever using gzip would be if you needed the additional
: compression (eg, because you have limited flash to store the image.)
:
: I would argue that the default for ARM should therefore be LZO.
This patch:
The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at
extraction. Here are some figures for an ARM board I'm working on:
Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo
gzip 1.61Mo 0.72s
lzo 1.75Mo 0.48s
So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's
much faster to extract, at least in that case.
This part contains:
- Makefile routine to support lzo compression
- Fixes to the existing lzo compressor so that it can be used in
compressed kernels
- wrapper around the existing lzo1x_decompress, as it only extracts one
block at a time, while we need to extract a whole file here
- config dialog for kernel compression
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
commit 3ba4162115 upstream.
Commit 40aee729b3 ('kconfig: fix default value for choice input')
fixed some cases where kconfig would select the wrong option from a
choice with a single valid option and thus enter an infinite loop.
However, this broke the test for user input of the form 'N?', because
when kconfig selects the single valid option the input is zero-length
and the test will read the byte before the input buffer. If this
happens to contain '?' (as it will in a mips build on Debian unstable
today) then kconfig again enters an infinite loop.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 3c955b407a upstream.
It doesn't like pattern and explicit rules to be on the same line,
and it seems to be more picky when matching file (or really directory)
names with different numbers of trailing slashes.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Andrew Benton <b3nton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 1c938663d5 upstream.
Alan <alan@clueserver.org> writes:
> program: /home/alan/GitTrees/linux-2.6-mid-ref/scripts/mod/modpost -o
> Module.symvers -S vmlinux.o
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
It just hit me.
It's the offset calculation in reloc_location() which overflows:
return (void *)elf->hdr + sechdrs[section].sh_offset +
(r->r_offset - sechdrs[section].sh_addr);
E.g. for the first rodata r entry:
r->r_offset < sechdrs[section].sh_addr
and the expression in the parenthesis produces 0xFFFFFFE0 or something
equally wise.
Reported-by: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Tested-by: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
When the output directory is something other than the kernel source,
the streamline_config script gets confused. This patch passes in the
source directory to the script so that it can find the proper files.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'hostprogs-wmissing-prototypes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux-misc:
Makefile: Add -Wmising-prototypes to HOSTCFLAGS
oss: Mark loadhex static in hex2hex.c
dtc: Mark various internal functions static
dtc: Set "noinput" in the lexer to avoid an unused function
drm: radeon: Mark several functions static in mkregtable
arch/sparc/boot/*.c: Mark various internal functions static
arch/powerpc/boot/addRamDisk.c: Mark several internal functions static
arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c: Mark "usage" static
Documentation/vm/page-types.c: Declare checked_open static
genksyms: Mark is_reserved_word static
kconfig: Mark various internal functions static
kconfig: Make zconf.y work with current bison
Regenerate the corresponding generated lexer.
Regenerating the lexer with current flex also provides prototypes for
various yy* functions, making some -Wmissing-prototypes warnings go away
as well.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The genksyms keyword gperf hash provides a function is_reserved_word.
genksyms #includes the resulting generated file keywords.c, so the
function gets used only in the same source file that defines it. Mark
is_reserved_word static, and regenerate the corresponding generated
file.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
kconfig's keyword hash, lexer, and parser define various functions used
only locally. Declare these functions as static, and regenerate the
corresponding generated files.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Ingo reported that the following lines triggered a false warning,
static struct lock_class_key rcu_lock_key;
struct lockdep_map rcu_lock_map =
STATIC_LOCKDEP_MAP_INIT("rcu_read_lock", &rcu_lock_key);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_lock_map);
from kernel/rcutree.c , and the false warning looked like this,
WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its
function/variable
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_lock_map);
We actually should be checking the statement before the EXPORT_* for a
mention of the exported object, and complain where it is not there.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the following code,
union thread_union init_thread_union
__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) =
{ INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task) };
There is a non-conforming declaration. It should really be like the
following,
union thread_union init_thread_union
__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) = {
INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task)
};
However, checkpatch doesn't catch this right now because it doesn't
correctly evaluate the "__attribute__".
It is not at all clear that we care what preceeds an assignment style
attribute when we find the open brace. Relax the test so we do not need
to check the __attribute__.
Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The macro concatenation (##) sequence can cause false errors when checking
macro's. Checkpatch doesn't currently know about the operator.
For example this line,
+ entry = (struct ftrace_raw_##call *)raw_data; \
is correct but it produces the following error,
ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxB)
+ entry = (struct ftrace_raw_##call *)raw_data;\
^
The line above doesn't have any spacing problems, and if you remove the
macro concatenation sequence checkpatch doesn't give any errors.
Extend identifier handling to include ## concatenation within the
definition of an identifier.
Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are allowing context scanning checks to apply against the first line of
context outside at the end of the hunk. This can lead to false matches to
patch names leading to various perl warnings. Correctly stop at the
bottom of the hunk.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Prevent known non types being detected as modifiers. Ensure we do not
look at any type which starts with a keyword.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Based on an idea from Wolfram Sang.
Add search for MAINTAINERS line "K:" regex pattern match in a patch or file
Matches are added after file pattern matches
Add --keywords command line switch (default 1, on)
Change version to 0.21
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
zconf.y includes zconf.hash.c from the initial code section.
zconf.hash.c references the token constants from zconf.y. However,
current bison defines the token constants after the initial code
section, making zconf.hash.c fail to compile. Move the include of
zconf.hash.c later in zconf.y, so bison puts it after the token
constants.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
