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Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | init/main.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index bd1ea92349cc..4e337906016e 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -130,13 +130,16 @@ config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA bool +config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ + bool + config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO bool choice prompt "Kernel compression mode" default KERNEL_GZIP - depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO help The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. Several compression algorithms are available, which differ @@ -181,6 +184,21 @@ config KERNEL_LZMA two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. +config KERNEL_XZ + bool "XZ" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ + help + XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific + BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable + code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in + comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ + filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ + will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. + + The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression + speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip + and LZO. Compression is slow. + config KERNEL_LZO bool "LZO" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO @@ -658,7 +676,7 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED help Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension comes with its price in a bigger memory consumption. General purpose distribution kernels - which want to enable the feautre but keep it disabled by default + which want to enable the feature but keep it disabled by default and let the user enable it by swapaccount boot command line parameter should have this option unselected. For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index ea51770c0170..00799c1d4628 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -777,9 +777,6 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void) for (fn = __early_initcall_end; fn < __initcall_end; fn++) do_one_initcall(*fn); - - /* Make sure there is no pending stuff from the initcall sequence */ - flush_scheduled_work(); } /* |