Re: [PATCH] init: add support for zstd compressed modules

2021-04-01 Thread torvic9
Thanks Piotr, good work! Question: Is `-T0` really faster in this particular case than the default `-T1`? Are modules installed sequentially? I also saw that Masahiro did some work on modules_install, moving MODULE_COMPRESS from the base Makefile to scripts/Makefile.modinst, so perhaps this shou

[PATCH 1/2] kbuild: allow setting zstd compression level for modules

2021-04-09 Thread torvic9
Zstd offers a very fine-grained control of compression ratios. Add a Kconfig option that allows setting the desired compression level for module compression. Based on Masahiro's linux-kbuild. Signed-off-by: Tor Vic Tested-by: Piotr Gorski --- init/Kconfig | 8 scripts/Make

[PATCH 2/2] kbuild: allow setting zstd compression level for kernel

2021-04-09 Thread torvic9
In a similar way to the first patch in this series, add another Kconfig option that allows setting the zstd compression level for the kernel as well. This enables users to choose either a compression level between 1 and 19, or instead use the highest possible level (ultra-22). Also add '-T0' parame

Re: linux-5.10.11 build failure

2021-01-28 Thread torvic9
Maybe you need something like this: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/entry&id=5e6dca82bcaa49348f9e5fcb48df4881f6d6c4ae Greetings, Tor