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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-03 16:03:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-03 16:03:23 -0700 |
| commit | c0dfadfed87489fa6126ece161a14c2d15dbdc79 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b1ac3fb464e4d18b57e3d4735cd6b60454cc972 /init | |
| parent | ba77c568f3160657a5f7905289c07d18c2dfde78 (diff) | |
| parent | 1ac1efa5f6950f8f126f2c1921bb699ce009ec7d (diff) | |
| download | lwn-c0dfadfed87489fa6126ece161a14c2d15dbdc79.tar.gz lwn-c0dfadfed87489fa6126ece161a14c2d15dbdc79.zip | |
Merge tag 'x86-boot-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main change in this cycle was to add support for ZSTD-compressed
kernel and initrd images.
ZSTD has a very fast decompressor, yet it compresses better than gzip"
* tag 'x86-boot-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Documentation: dontdiff: Add zstd compressed files
.gitignore: Add ZSTD-compressed files
x86: Add support for ZSTD compressed kernel
x86: Bump ZO_z_extra_bytes margin for zstd
usr: Add support for zstd compressed initramfs
init: Add support for zstd compressed kernel
lib: Add zstd support to decompress
lib: Prepare zstd for preboot environment, improve performance
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 9f7f249dab43..f4bffefdbed5 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -191,13 +191,16 @@ config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 bool +config HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD + bool + config HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED bool choice prompt "Kernel compression mode" default KERNEL_GZIP - depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 || HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD || HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED help The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. Several compression algorithms are available, which differ @@ -276,6 +279,16 @@ config KERNEL_LZ4 is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is faster than LZO. +config KERNEL_ZSTD + bool "ZSTD" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD + help + ZSTD is a compression algorithm targeting intermediate compression + with fast decompression speed. It will compress better than GZIP and + decompress around the same speed as LZO, but slower than LZ4. You + will need at least 192 KB RAM or more for booting. The zstd command + line tool is required for compression. + config KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED bool "None" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED |