Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] ARM ZSTD boot compression

On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:32:18 +0200
Andreas Kemnade [off-list ref] wrote:

Add ZSTD compression to still have a quite high compression but with
not too much boot delay penality. 

Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>

Anything left for me to do here?

Regards,
Andreas

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Changes in v2:
- rebased
- practically rewritten 3/3 (and therefore changed author)
- added more measurements
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZDoDYh01GYjdwp63@probook/ (local)

To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
To: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: j.neuschaefer@gmx.net
Cc: f.fainelli@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Walleij <redacted>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

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Andreas Kemnade (1):
      ARM: compressed: Enable ZSTD compression

Jonathan Neuschäfer (2):
      ARM: compressed: Pass the actual output length to the decompressor
      ARM: compressed: Bump MALLOC_SIZE to 128 KiB

 arch/arm/Kconfig                      |  1 +
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile     |  3 ++-
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S       |  4 ++--
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c       | 10 +++++++++-
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.h       |  3 ++-
 6 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 8d3ae59288f1e7d58d76558a6ee96d533bc5019f
change-id: 20260828-zstd2-045ce924f624

Best regards,
--  
Andreas Kemnade [off-list ref]