decompressors: add boot-time XZ support
This implements the API defined in <linux/decompress/generic.h> which is used for kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. This patch together with the first patch is enough for XZ-compressed initramfs and initrd; XZ-compressed kernel will need arch-specific changes. The buffering requirements described in decompress_unxz.c are stricter than with gzip, so the relevant changes should be done to the arch-specific code when adding support for XZ-compressed kernel. Similarly, the heap size in arch-specific pre-boot code may need to be increased (30 KiB is enough). The XZ decompressor needs memmove(), memeq() (memcmp() == 0), and memzero() (memset(ptr, 0, size)), which aren't available in all arch-specific pre-boot environments. I'm including simple versions in decompress_unxz.c, but a cleaner solution would naturally be nicer. Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -72,6 +72,15 @@ config RD_LZMA
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Support loading of a LZMA encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer
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If unsure, say N.
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config RD_XZ
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bool "Support initial ramdisks compressed using XZ" if EMBEDDED
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default !EMBEDDED
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depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD
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select DECOMPRESS_XZ
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help
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Support loading of a XZ encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer.
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If unsure, say N.
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config RD_LZO
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bool "Support initial ramdisks compressed using LZO" if EMBEDDED
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default !EMBEDDED
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@@ -139,6 +148,15 @@ config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_LZMA
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three. Compression is slowest. The initramfs size is about 33%
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smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
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config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_XZ
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bool "XZ"
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depends on RD_XZ
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help
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XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm. The initramfs size is about 30%
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smaller with XZ in comparison to gzip. Decompression speed
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is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip and LZO.
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Compression is slow.
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config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_LZO
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bool "LZO"
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depends on RD_LZO
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