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authorMatthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>2020-05-13 20:33:46 +0200
committerMatthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>2020-05-31 11:03:31 +0200
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build: compress kernel debuginfo using zstd
zstd with its default settings (compression level -3) compresses better than bzip2 -9 (which is the default setting), and is an order of magnitude faster. I made the following measurements for the most common compression tools (all standard Debian Buster versions, default flags unless noted otherwise), using the debug information of a large x86-64 kernel with ALL_KMODS: * kernel-debug.tar: 376M * kernel-debug.tar.gz: 101M, compressed in ~12s * kernel-debug.tar.bz2: 91M, compressed in ~15s * kernel-debug.tar.xz: 57M, compressed in ~101s * kernel-debug.tar.zst: 86M, compressed in ~1s With zstd, there is still some room for improvement by increasing the compression, but the slight increase in compression ratio (22.83% -> 19.46%) does not justify the significant increase in compression time (about 5 times on my machine) in my opinion. Note that multithreaded compression (-T argument) does not affect reproducibility with zstd. Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
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-rw-r--r--include/kernel-build.mk2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/kernel-build.mk b/include/kernel-build.mk
index c371e78ab9..32c91a5b83 100644
--- a/include/kernel-build.mk
+++ b/include/kernel-build.mk
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ ifdef CONFIG_COLLECT_KERNEL_DEBUG
$(FIND) $(KERNEL_BUILD_DIR)/debug -type f | $(XARGS) $(KERNEL_CROSS)strip --only-keep-debug
$(TAR) c -C $(KERNEL_BUILD_DIR) debug \
$(if $(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH),--mtime="@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)") \
- | bzip2 -c -9 > $(BIN_DIR)/kernel-debug.tar.bz2
+ | zstd -T0 -f -o $(BIN_DIR)/kernel-debug.tar.zst
endef
endif