initramfs: support initramfs that is bigger than 2GiB

2014-08-08T22:57:26Z

Now with 64bit bzImage and kexec tools, we support ramdisk that size is bigger than 2g, as we could put it above 4G. Found compressed initramfs image could not be decompressed properly. It turns out that image length is int during decompress detection, and it will become < 0 when length is more than 2G. Furthermore, during decompressing len as int is used for inbuf count, that has problem too. Change len to long, that should be ok as on 32 bit platform long is 32bits. Tested with following compressed initramfs image as root with kexec. gzip, bzip2, xz, lzma, lzop, lz4. run time for populate_rootfs(): size name Nehalem-EX Westmere-EX Ivybridge-EX 9034400256 root_img : 26s 24s 30s 3561095057 root_img.lz4 : 28s 27s 27s 3459554629 root_img.lzo : 29s 29s 28s 3219399480 root_img.gz : 64s 62s 49s 2251594592 root_img.xz : 262s 260s 183s 2226366598 root_img.lzma: 386s 376s 277s 2901482513 root_img.bz2 : 635s 599s Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Rashika Kheria Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Kyungsik Lee Cc: P J P Cc: Al Viro Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: "Daniel M. Weeks" Cc: Alexandre Courbot Cc: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel

2013-07-09T17:33:30Z

Add support for extracting LZ4-compressed kernel images, as well as LZ4-compressed ramdisk images in the kernel boot process. Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Russell King Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Florian Fainelli Cc: Yann Collet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/include/linux/decompress/unlz4.h, branch linux-3.17.y

initramfs: support initramfs that is bigger than 2GiB

lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel