xz: adjust arch-specific options for better kernel compression
Use LZMA2 options that match the arch-specific alignment of instructions.
This change reduces compressed kernel size 0-2 % depending on the arch.
On 1-byte-aligned x86 it makes no difference and on 4-byte-aligned archs
it helps the most.
Use the ARM-Thumb filter for ARM-Thumb2 kernels. This reduces compressed
kernel size about 5 %.[1] Previously such kernels were compressed using
the ARM filter which didn't do anything useful with ARM-Thumb2 code.
Add BCJ filter support for ARM64 and RISC-V. Compared to unfiltered XZ or
plain LZMA, the compressed kernel size is reduced about 5 % on ARM64 and 7
% on RISC-V. A new enough version of the xz tool is required: 5.4.0 for
ARM64 and 5.6.0 for RISC-V. With an old xz version, a message is printed
to standard error and the kernel is compressed without the filter.
Update lib/decompress_unxz.c to match the changes to xz_wrap.sh.
Update the CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ help text in init/Kconfig:
- Add the RISC-V and ARM64 filters.
- Clarify that the PowerPC filter is for big endian only.
- Omit IA-64.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1637379771-39449-1-git-send-email-zhongjubin@huawei.com/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240721133633.47721-15-lasse.collin@tukaani.org
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Reviewed-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Jubin Zhong <zhongjubin@huawei.com>
Cc: Jules Maselbas <jmaselbas@zdiv.net>
Cc: Emil Renner Berthing <emil.renner.berthing@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Rui Li <me@lirui.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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