From: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
To: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@gmail.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 4/8] usr: add support for zstd compressed initramfs
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 11:19:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200804091949.GB9657@angband.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+icZUXGbV1x0YJn-0mLA2TtU2jWS6PO3bqdDrqJBMYOMS9Eog@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:25:23AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 8:52 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 9:13 PM Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > From: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
> > > * Add support for a zstd compressed initramfs.
> > > * Add compression for compressing built-in initramfs with zstd.
> > > --- a/usr/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/usr/Kconfig
> > > @@ -100,6 +100,15 @@ config RD_LZ4
> > > Support loading of a LZ4 encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer
> > > If unsure, say N.
> > >
> > > +config RD_ZSTD
> > > + bool "Support initial ramdisk/ramfs compressed using ZSTD"
> > > + default y
> > > + depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD
> > > + select DECOMPRESS_ZSTD
> > > + help
> > > + Support loading of a ZSTD encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer.
> > > + If unsure, say N.
> >
> > I'm aware you copied this from the other entries, but IMHO "default y",
> > and "If unsure, say N" are not a good combination.
> you are right - for new stuff it should be "default n".
It got already applied to Linus' tree with "y", and I think it'd be nice
to have it as a default. Let's disable other compressors instead.
On the other hand, having an unsupported rd compressor results in a boot
failure that's not immediately obvious, so that's a reason for keeping
the setting as "y".
On the third hand, distributions default to either gz or xz, thus I'd say:
* let's have gz xz zstd default to y, all others to n
* drop bzip2 lzma1 completely
* distros can't switch the mkinitramfs default yet, but if RD_ZSTD=y now,
they'll be able to once they drop support for old kernels in a few years
> What I am missing - still - is a note - that your user-space should
> have the correct bits to support zstd-initramfs.
> Unsure where to place such an information.
Looks like INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_* have lengthy prose but are not shown in
menuconfig, while RD_*, with no such prose, are shown.
The prose itself is grossly obsolete, too. I have some updates in:
https://github.com/kilobyte/linux/commits/nobz2-v3
but that patchset needs rebasing and refreshing.
Meow!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-04 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-30 19:08 [GIT PULL][PATCH v10 0/8] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and initramfs Nick Terrell
2020-07-30 19:08 ` [PATCH v10 1/8] lib: prepare zstd for preboot environment Nick Terrell
2020-07-30 19:08 ` [PATCH v10 2/8] lib: add zstd support to decompress Nick Terrell
2020-07-30 19:08 ` [PATCH v10 3/8] init: add support for zstd compressed kernel Nick Terrell
2020-07-30 19:08 ` [PATCH v10 4/8] usr: add support for zstd compressed initramfs Nick Terrell
2020-08-04 6:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-08-04 7:25 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-04 9:19 ` Adam Borowski [this message]
2020-07-30 19:08 ` [PATCH v10 5/8] x86: bump ZO_z_extra_bytes margin for zstd Nick Terrell
2020-07-30 19:08 ` [PATCH v10 6/8] x86: Add support for ZSTD compressed kernel Nick Terrell
2020-07-30 19:08 ` [PATCH v10 7/8] .gitignore: add ZSTD-compressed files Nick Terrell
2020-07-31 9:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-31 17:17 ` Nick Terrell
2020-07-30 19:08 ` [PATCH v10 8/8] Documentation: dontdiff: Add zstd compressed files Nick Terrell
2020-07-31 9:47 ` [GIT PULL][PATCH v10 0/8] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and initramfs Sedat Dilek
2020-07-31 14:36 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-04 6:47 ` Sedat Dilek
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