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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
H. Peter Anvin 147dd5610c x86-32: Make sure we can map all of lowmem if we need to
A relocatable kernel can be anywhere in lowmem -- and in the case of a
kdump kernel, is likely to be fairly high.  Since the early page
tables map everything from address zero up we need to make sure we
allocate enough brk that we can map all of lowmem if we need to.

Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D0AD3ED.8070607@kernel.org>
2010-12-16 19:11:09 -08:00
Zhao Yakui 68f4d5a00a x86, setup: Use string copy operation to optimze copy in kernel compression
The kernel decompression code parses the ELF header and then copies
the segment to the corresponding destination.  Currently it uses slow
byte-copy code.  This patch makes it use the string copy operations
instead.

In the test the copy performance can be improved very significantly after using
the string copy operation mechanism.
        1. The copy time can be reduced from 150ms to 20ms on one Atom machine
	2. The copy time can be reduced about 80% on another machine
		The time is reduced from 7ms to 1.5ms when using 32-bit kernel.
		The time is reduced from 10ms to 2ms when using 64-bit kernel.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1286502453-7043-1-git-send-email-yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-10-07 21:23:09 -07:00
Yinghai Lu 8fee13a48e x86, setup: enable early console output from the decompressor
This enables the decompressor output to be seen on the serial console.
Most of the code is shared with the regular boot code.

We could add printf to the decompressor if needed, but currently there
is no sufficiently compelling user.

-v2: define BOOT_BOOT_H to avoid include boot.h
-v3: early_serial_base need to be static in misc.c ?
-v4: create seperate string.c printf.c cmdline.c early_serial_console.c
     after hpa's patch that allow global variables in compressed/misc stage
-v5: remove printf.c related

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-08-02 20:32:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f6a0b5cd34 Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, setup: Don't skip mode setting for the standard VGA modes
  x86-64, setup: Inhibit decompressor output if video info is invalid
  x86, setup: When restoring the screen, update boot_params.screen_info
2010-02-28 10:43:53 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin eb572a5c79 x86-64, setup: Inhibit decompressor output if video info is invalid
Inhibit output from the kernel decompressor if the video information
is invalid.  This was already the case for 32 bits, make 64 bits
match.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
2010-02-18 22:15:04 -08:00
Brian Gerst 6175ddf06b x86: Clean up mem*io functions.
Iomem has no special significance on x86.  Use the standard mem*
functions instead of trying to call other versions.  Some fixups
are needed to match the function prototypes.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265380629-3212-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-05 13:57:33 -08:00
Albin Tonnerre 13510997d6 x86: add support for LZO-compressed kernels
The necessary changes to the x86 Kconfig and boot/compressed to allow the
use of this new compression method

Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.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>
2010-01-11 09:34:05 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin 7ed42a28b2 x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c contains several sanity checks on the
output address.  Correct constraints that are no longer correct:

- the alignment test should be MIN_KERNEL_ALIGN on both 32 and 64
  bits.
- the 64 bit maximum address was set to 2^40, which was the limit of
  one specific x86-64 implementation.  Change the test to 2^46, the
  current Linux limit, and at least try to test the end rather than
  the beginning.
- for non-relocatable kernels, test against LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on both
  32 and 64 bits.

[ Impact: fix potential boot failure due to invalid tests ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-12 11:33:08 -07:00
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
Ingo Molnar e496e3d645 Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1 2008-10-06 18:17:07 +02:00
Paolo Ciarrocchi 020878ac42 x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
Before:
total: 4 errors, 6 warnings, 439 lines checked

After:
total: 1 errors, 5 warnings, 441 lines checked

Before

 -#include <asm/io.h>
 +#include <linux/io.h>

paolo@paolo-desktop:~/linux.trees.git$ md5sum /tmp/misc.o.*
8b2394e1fe519a9542e9a7e3e7b69c39  /tmp/misc.o.after
8b2394e1fe519a9542e9a7e3e7b69c39  /tmp/misc.o.before

After

 -#include <asm/io.h>
 +#include <linux/io.h>

paolo@paolo-desktop:~/linux.trees.git$ md5sum /tmp/misc.o.*
59a2d264284be5e72b5af4f3a8ccfb47  /tmp/misc.o.after
8b2394e1fe519a9542e9a7e3e7b69c39  /tmp/misc.o.before

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 16:53:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1503af6619 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/header-guards
Conflicts:

	include/asm-x86/gpio.h
	include/asm-x86/ide.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26 15:30:40 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni 2d6ffcca62 inflate: refactor inflate malloc code
Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.

The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement
free.  This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding
allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena.

This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying
all the malloc/free implementations.

The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
 - free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
   allocations should be made
 - free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
   allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
   the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed

The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
function call.  This function will be called several times during the
decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is
still running.  If an architecture provides such a call, then it must
define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls
arch_decomp_wdog().

Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the
kernel and improved by me.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
Vegard Nossum a318631686 x86: consolidate header guards
This patch consolidates the header guard names which are also used
externally, i.e. in .c files.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2008-07-22 21:53:53 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 3de352bbd8 Merge branch 'x86/mpparse' into x86/devel
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/Kconfig
	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
	arch/x86/mm/init_32.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 11:14:58 +02:00
Ben Collins 6bcb13b35a x86: config option to disable info from decompression of the kernel
This patch allows the disabling of decompression messages during
x86 bootup.

Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <ben.collins@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-03 14:34:02 +02:00
Yinghai Lu d49c428840 x86: make generic arch support NUMAQ
... so it could fall back to normal numa and we'd reduce the impact of the
NUMAQ subarch.

NUMAQ depends on GENERICARCH
also decouple genericarch numa from acpi.
also make it fall back to bigsmp if apicid > 8.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-10 11:34:42 +02:00
Kristian Høgsberg 3b6b9293d0 x86: Honor 'quiet' command line option in real mode boot decompressor.
This patch lets the early real mode code look for the 'quiet' option
on the kernel command line and pass a loadflag to the decompressor.
When this flag is set, we suppress the "Decompressing Linux... Parsing
ELF... done." messages.

Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-05-30 17:00:47 -07:00
Kristian Høgsberg 23968f71b2 x86: Use structs instead of hardcoded offsets in x86 boot decompressor.
Replace hardcoded offsets embedded in macros in
arch/x86/boot/compressed with proper structure references.

Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-05-30 17:00:34 -07:00
Alexander van Heukelum 7c53976404 x86: cleanup boot-heap usage
The kernel decompressor wrapper uses memory located beyond the
end of the image. This might lead to hard to debug problems,
but even if it can be proven to be safe, it is at the very
least unclean. I don't see any advantages either, unless you
count it not being zeroed out as an advantage. This patch
moves the boot-heap area to the bss segment.

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-19 19:19:54 +02:00
Alexander van Heukelum 03056c88cf x86: remove superfluous initialisation in boot code.
In arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c, the variable vidmem is
the only variable that ends up in de data segment. It's also
superfluous, because the first thing the code does is:

	if (RM_SCREEN_INFO.orig_video_mode == 7) {
		vidmem = (char *) 0xb0000;
		vidport = 0x3b4;
	} else {
		vidmem = (char *) 0xb8000;
		vidport = 0x3d4;
	}

This patch removes the initialisation.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:36 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1180e01de5 x86: more cleanups in arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
Before:
   total: 7 errors, 8 warnings, 471 lines checked
After:
   total: 5 errors, 5 warnings, 479 lines checked

( the rest cannot be eliminated due to zlib interface cruftiness. )

No code changed:

arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  10716	      8	   2152	  12876	   324c	misc.o.before
  10716	      8	   2152	  12876	   324c	misc.o.after

md5:
   2c20c903986a3c9bca44306c6646067e  misc.o.before.asm
   2c20c903986a3c9bca44306c6646067e  misc.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:40:49 +02:00
Paolo Ciarrocchi fd77c7cabd x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
Fix lots of style errors and warnings.

Before:
   total: 58 errors, 9 warnings, 469 lines checked
After:
   total: 7 errors, 8 warnings, 471 lines checked

No code changed:

arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  10716	      8	   2152	  12876	   324c	misc.o.before
  10716	      8	   2152	  12876	   324c	misc.o.after

md5:
   2c20c903986a3c9bca44306c6646067e  misc.o.before.asm
   2c20c903986a3c9bca44306c6646067e  misc.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:40:49 +02:00
Ian Campbell 099e137726 x86: use ELF format in compressed images.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 17:40:46 +02:00
Ian Campbell 778cb929ad x86: unify arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_??.c
Remainder of unification can occur inplace.

size reports no change in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:38 +01:00
Renamed from arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_32.c (Browse further)