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>

1 files changed, 137 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/xz_wrap.sh b/scripts/xz_wrap.sh
index c8c36441ab70..f19369687030 100755
--- a/scripts/xz_wrap.sh
+++ b/scripts/xz_wrap.sh
@@ -6,14 +6,146 @@
 #
 # Author: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
 
+# This has specialized settings for the following archs. However,
+# XZ-compressed kernel isn't currently supported on every listed arch.
+#
+#   Arch        Align   Notes
+#   arm          2/4    ARM and ARM-Thumb2
+#   arm64         4
+#   csky          2
+#   loongarch     4
+#   mips         2/4    MicroMIPS is 2-byte aligned
+#   parisc        4
+#   powerpc       4     Uses its own wrapper for compressors instead of this.
+#   riscv        2/4
+#   s390          2
+#   sh            2
+#   sparc         4
+#   x86           1
+
+# A few archs use 2-byte or 4-byte aligned instructions depending on
+# the kernel config. This function is used to check if the relevant
+# config option is set to "y".
+is_enabled()
+{
+	grep -q "^$1=y$" include/config/auto.conf
+}
+
+# XZ_VERSION is needed to disable features that aren't available in
+# old XZ Utils versions.
+XZ_VERSION=$($XZ --robot --version) || exit
+XZ_VERSION=$(printf '%s\n' "$XZ_VERSION" | sed -n 's/^XZ_VERSION=//p')
+
+# Assume that no BCJ filter is available.
 BCJ=
-LZMA2OPTS=
 
+# Set the instruction alignment to 1, 2, or 4 bytes.
+#
+# Set the BCJ filter if one is available.
+# It must match the #ifdef usage in lib/decompress_unxz.c.
 case $SRCARCH in
-	x86)            BCJ=--x86 ;;
-	powerpc)        BCJ=--powerpc ;;
-	arm)            BCJ=--arm ;;
-	sparc)          BCJ=--sparc ;;
+	arm)
+		if is_enabled CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL; then
+			ALIGN=2
+			BCJ=--armthumb
+		else
+			ALIGN=4
+			BCJ=--arm
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	arm64)
+		ALIGN=4
+
+		# ARM64 filter was added in XZ Utils 5.4.0.
+		if [ "$XZ_VERSION" -ge 50040002 ]; then
+			BCJ=--arm64
+		else
+			echo "$0: Upgrading to xz >= 5.4.0" \
+				"would enable the ARM64 filter" \
+				"for better compression" >&2
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	csky)
+		ALIGN=2
+		;;
+
+	loongarch)
+		ALIGN=4
+		;;
+
+	mips)
+		if is_enabled CONFIG_CPU_MICROMIPS; then
+			ALIGN=2
+		else
+			ALIGN=4
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	parisc)
+		ALIGN=4
+		;;
+
+	powerpc)
+		ALIGN=4
+
+		# The filter is only for big endian instruction encoding.
+		if is_enabled CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN; then
+			BCJ=--powerpc
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	riscv)
+		if is_enabled CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C; then
+			ALIGN=2
+		else
+			ALIGN=4
+		fi
+
+		# RISC-V filter was added in XZ Utils 5.6.0.
+		if [ "$XZ_VERSION" -ge 50060002 ]; then
+			BCJ=--riscv
+		else
+			echo "$0: Upgrading to xz >= 5.6.0" \
+				"would enable the RISC-V filter" \
+				"for better compression" >&2
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	s390)
+		ALIGN=2
+		;;
+
+	sh)
+		ALIGN=2
+		;;
+
+	sparc)
+		ALIGN=4
+		BCJ=--sparc
+		;;
+
+	x86)
+		ALIGN=1
+		BCJ=--x86
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		echo "$0: Arch-specific tuning is missing for '$SRCARCH'" >&2
+
+		# Guess 2-byte-aligned instructions. Guessing too low
+		# should hurt less than guessing too high.
+		ALIGN=2
+		;;
+esac
+
+# Select the LZMA2 options matching the instruction alignment.
+case $ALIGN in
+	1)  LZMA2OPTS= ;;
+	2)  LZMA2OPTS=lp=1 ;;
+	4)  LZMA2OPTS=lp=2,lc=2 ;;
+	*)  echo "$0: ALIGN wrong or missing" >&2; exit 1 ;;
 esac
 
 # Use single-threaded mode because it compresses a little better