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Lasse Collin 303148045a x86: support XZ-compressed kernel
This integrates the XZ decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.

mkpiggy.c is updated to reserve about 32 KiB more buffer safety margin for
kernel decompression.  It is done unconditionally for all decompressors to
keep the code simpler.

The XZ decompressor needs around 30 KiB of heap, so the heap size is
increased to 32 KiB on both x86-32 and x86-64.

Documentation/x86/boot.txt is updated to list the XZ magic number.

With the x86 BCJ filter in XZ, XZ-compressed x86 kernel tends to be a few
percent smaller than the equivalent LZMA-compressed kernel.

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>
2011-01-13 08:03:25 -08:00
Jan Beulich 6fc108a08d x86: Clean up arch/x86/Kconfig*
No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BCF2690020000780003B340@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-04-28 17:25:53 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 658dbfeb5e x86, setup: correct include file in <asm/boot.h>
<asm/boot.h> needs <asm/pgtable_types.h>, not <asm/page_types.h> in
order to resolve PMD_SHIFT.  Also, correct a +1 which really should be
+ THREAD_ORDER.

This is a build error which was masked by a typoed #ifdef.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-25 15:16:06 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day 22f4319d6b x86, setup: Fix typo "CONFIG_x86_64" in <asm/boot.h>
CONFIG_X86_64 was misspelled (wrong case), which caused the x86-64
kernel to advertise itself as more relocatable than it really is.
This could in theory cause boot failures once bootloaders start
support the new relocation fields.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-25 13:33:11 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 37ba7ab5e3 x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
Make the kernel_alignment field adjustable; this allows us to set it
to a large value (intended to be 16 MB to avoid ZONE_DMA contention,
memory holes and other weirdness) while a smart bootloader can still
force a loading at a lesser alignment if absolutely necessary.

Also export pref_address (preferred loading address, corresponding to
the link-time address) and init_size, the total amount of linear
memory the kernel will require during initialization.

[ Impact: allows better kernel placement, gives bootloader more info ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 17:44:39 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 5e47c478b0 x86: remove zImage support
Impact: obsolete feature removal

The zImage kernel format has been functionally unused for a very long
time.  It is just barely possible to build a modern kernel that still
fits within the zImage size limit, but it is highly unlikely that
anyone ever uses it.  Furthermore, although it is still supported by
most bootloaders, it has been at best poorly tested (or not tested at
all); some bootloaders are even known to not support zImage at all and
not having even noticed.

Also remove some really obsolete constants that no longer have any
meaning.

LKML-Reference: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-11 11:00:00 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 95c4bff030 x86: headers cleanup - boot.h
Impact: cleanup

'make headers_check' warn us about leaking of kernel private
(mostly compile time vars) data to userspace in headers. Fix it.

Neither BOOT_HEAP_SIZE, BOOT_STACK_SIZE refs
was found by searching thru net (ie in user-space area)
so fence this all by __KERNEL__ guard.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-14 15:39:28 -08:00
Alain Knaff ae03c49964 bzip2/lzma: x86 kernel compression support
Impact: Replaces x86 kernel decompressor with new code

This is the third part of the bzip2/lzma patch

The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for
compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both
compressors give smaller sizes than gzip.  Lzma's decompresses faster
than bzip2.

It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two
compressors.

The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by
the udpcast project

This version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28

This part contains:
- support for new bzip2 and lzma kernel compression for x86

Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-04 15:53:35 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin 1965aae3c9 x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guards
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:

a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-22 22:55:23 -07:00
Al Viro bb8985586b x86, um: ... and asm-x86 move
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-22 22:55:20 -07:00