lib: add lz4 compressor module
authorChanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Mon, 8 Jul 2013 23:01:49 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 Jul 2013 17:33:30 +0000 (10:33 -0700)
commitc72ac7a1a926dbffb59daf0f275450e5eecce16f
tree11350b56ad27c7001bdd45ce35d95666c355dfa8
parentf9b493ac9b833fd9dd3bbd50460adb33f29e1238
lib: add lz4 compressor module

This patchset is for supporting LZ4 compression and the crypto API using
it.

As shown below, the size of data is a little bit bigger but compressing
speed is faster under the enabled unaligned memory access.  We can use
lz4 de/compression through crypto API as well.  Also, It will be useful
for another potential user of lz4 compression.

lz4 Compression Benchmark:
Compiler: ARM gcc 4.6.4
ARMv7, 1 GHz based board
   Kernel: linux 3.4
   Uncompressed data Size: 101 MB
         Compressed Size  compression Speed
   LZO   72.1MB   32.1MB/s, 33.0MB/s(UA)
   LZ4   75.1MB   30.4MB/s, 35.9MB/s(UA)
   LZ4HC 59.8MB    2.4MB/s,  2.5MB/s(UA)
- UA: Unaligned memory Access support
- Latest patch set for LZO applied

This patch:

Add support for LZ4 compression in the Linux Kernel.  LZ4 Compression APIs
for kernel are based on LZ4 implementation by Yann Collet and were changed
for kernel coding style.

LZ4 homepage : http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/lz4.html
LZ4 source repository : http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
svn revision : r90

Two APIs are added:

lz4_compress() support basic lz4 compression whereas lz4hc_compress()
support high compression or CPU performance get lower but compression
ratio get higher.  Also, we require the pre-allocated working memory with
the defined size and destination buffer must be allocated with the size of
lz4_compressbound.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make lz4_compresshcctx() static]
Signed-off-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
Cc: Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com>
Cc: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/lz4.h
lib/Kconfig
lib/Makefile
lib/lz4/Makefile
lib/lz4/lz4_compress.c [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/lz4/lz4defs.h
lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c [new file with mode: 0644]