Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Apr 2020 12:19:29 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 6/8] x86: bump ZO_z_extra_bytes margin for zstd |
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On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 08:25:49PM +0000, Nick Terrell wrote: > So it is possible that there is a use case for kernel compression that > I’m not aware of where RAM is extremely tight and within 64 KB of > the current limits.
That's exactly my concern, albeit a very minor one.
> It seems to me that adding 64KB to the memory requirement for kernel > decompression is not going to break anyone. If it did the kernel image > is taking up nearly all available RAM, which doesn’t seem likely. > But, I don’t know all use cases. If it does break someone, we can > put up a separate patch that switches all the compression methods over > a per-method ZO_z_extra_bytes.
Ok.
Thx.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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