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From: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@gmail.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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	"Chris Mason" <clm@fb.com>,
	"linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
	Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>,
	Patrick Williams <patrickw3@fb.com>,
	Michael van der Westhuizen <rmikey@fb.com>,
	"mingo@kernel.org" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz>,
	Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 6/7] x86: Add support for ZSTD compressed kernel
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 22:44:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D5815CBB-EAA8-4942-80CA-874DA325EE7A@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200724143022.GA601509@rani.riverdale.lan>



> On Jul 24, 2020, at 7:30 AM, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 02:50:34AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 9:30 PM Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> From: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
>>> 
>>> * Add support for zstd compressed kernel
>>> * Define __DISABLE_EXPORTS in misc.c
>>> * Bump the heap size for zstd.
>>> * Update the documentation.
>>> 
>>> Integrates the ZSTD decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.
>>> 
>>> Zstandard requires slightly more memory during the kernel decompression
>>> on x86 (192 KB vs 64 KB), and the memory usage is independent of the
>>> window size.
>>> 
>>> __DISABLE_EXPORTS is defined in misc.c instead of the Makefile because
>>> kaslr.c defines __DISABLE_EXPORTS, and defining it in the Makefile gives
>>> duplicate definition warnings.
>>> 
>> 
>> That was reported by Arvind - feel free to add a Reported-by: ...
>> 
>> - Sedat -
>> 
> 
> It's not necessary to add Reported-by's for problems encountered while
> developing the series. Especially as it was my drive-by suggestion to
> use __DISABLE_EXPORTS that introduced the issue in the first place :)
> 
> I'd have added it to the Makefile and just dropped the definition in
> kaslr.c -- should be no reason for anything in here to use EXPORT_SYMBOL.

Sure, I was a bit hesitant to modify more than necessary here, but I will go
ahead and do that.

Thanks for the reviews!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-27 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-23 19:27 [GIT PULL][PATCH v8 0/7] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and initramfs Nick Terrell
2020-07-23 19:27 ` [PATCH v8 1/7] lib: prepare zstd for preboot environment Nick Terrell
2020-07-23 19:27 ` [PATCH v8 2/7] lib: add zstd support to decompress Nick Terrell
2020-07-24 12:12   ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-23 19:27 ` [PATCH v8 3/7] init: add support for zstd compressed kernel Nick Terrell
2020-07-23 20:30   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-07-24 12:17     ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-24 14:09       ` Randy Dunlap
2020-07-23 19:27 ` [PATCH v8 4/7] usr: add support for zstd compressed initramfs Nick Terrell
2020-07-23 19:27 ` [PATCH v8 5/7] x86: bump ZO_z_extra_bytes margin for zstd Nick Terrell
2020-07-23 19:28 ` [PATCH v8 6/7] x86: Add support for ZSTD compressed kernel Nick Terrell
2020-07-24  0:50   ` Sedat Dilek
2020-07-24 14:30     ` Arvind Sankar
2020-07-24 14:48       ` Sedat Dilek
2020-07-24 17:38         ` Arvind Sankar
2020-07-27 22:44       ` Nick Terrell [this message]
2020-07-24 12:26   ` Ingo Molnar
2020-07-24 13:46     ` Adam Borowski
2020-07-27 22:43     ` Nick Terrell
2020-07-23 19:28 ` [PATCH v8 7/7] .gitignore: add ZSTD-compressed files Nick Terrell
2020-07-24  0:49 ` [GIT PULL][PATCH v8 0/7] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and initramfs Sedat Dilek

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