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Phillip Lougher
f268eedddf squashfs: extend "page actor" to handle missing pages
Patch series "Squashfs: handle missing pages decompressing into page
cache".

This patchset enables Squashfs to handle missing pages when directly
decompressing datablocks into the page cache.

Previously if the full set of pages needed was not available, Squashfs
would have to fall back to using an intermediate buffer (the older
method), which is slower, involving a memcopy, and it introduces
contention on a shared buffer.

The first patch extends the "page actor" code to handle missing pages.

The second patch updates Squashfs_readpage_block() to use the new
functionality, and removes the code that falls back to using an
intermediate buffer.

This patchset is independent of the readahead work, and it is standalone. 
It can be merged on its own.

But the readahead patch for efficiency also needs this patch-set.


This patch (of 2):

This patch extends the "page actor" code to handle missing pages.

Previously if the full set of pages needed to decompress a Squashfs
datablock was unavailable, this would cause decompression to fail on the
missing pages.

In this case direct decompression into the page cache could not be
achieved and the code would fall back to using the older intermediate
buffer method.

With this patch, direct decompression into the page cache can be achieved
with missing pages.

For "multi-shot" decompressors (zlib, xz, zstd), the page actor will
allocate a temporary buffer which is passed to the decompressor, and then
freed by the page actor.

For "single shot" decompressors (lz4, lzo) which decompress into a
contiguous "bounce buffer", and which is then copied into the page cache,
it would be pointless to allocate a temporary buffer, memcpy into it, and
then free it.  For these decompressors -ENOMEM is returned, which
signifies that the memcpy for that page should be skipped.

This also happens if the data block is uncompressed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220611032133.5743-1-phillip@squashfs.org.uk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220611032133.5743-2-phillip@squashfs.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@chromium.org>
Cc: Xiongwei Song <Xiongwei.Song@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-06-16 19:58:21 -07:00
Philippe Liard
93e72b3c61 squashfs: migrate from ll_rw_block usage to BIO
ll_rw_block() function has been deprecated in favor of BIO which appears
to come with large performance improvements.

This patch decreases boot time by close to 40% when using squashfs for
the root file-system.  This is observed at least in the context of
starting an Android VM on Chrome OS using crosvm.  The patch was tested
on 4.19 as well as master.

This patch is largely based on Adrien Schildknecht's patch that was
originally sent as https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/9/22/814 though with some
significant changes and simplifications while also taking Phillip
Lougher's feedback into account, around preserving support for
FILE_CACHE in particular.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build error reported by Randy]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/319997c2-5fc8-f889-2ea3-d913308a7c1f@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Philippe Liard <pliard@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Adrien Schildknecht <adrien+dev@schischi.me>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
Link: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106074238.186023-1-pliard@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-02 10:59:05 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
68252eb5f8 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 35
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has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 23 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520170857.458548087@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-24 17:27:11 +02:00
Sean Purcell
87bf54bb43 squashfs: Add zstd support
Add zstd compression and decompression support to SquashFS. zstd is a
great fit for SquashFS because it can compress at ratios approaching xz,
while decompressing twice as fast as zlib. For SquashFS in particular,
it can decompress as fast as lzo and lz4. It also has the flexibility
to turn down the compression ratio for faster compression times.

The compression benchmark is run on the file tree from the SquashFS archive
found in ubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso [1]. It uses `mksquashfs` with the
default block size (128 KB) and and various compression algorithms/levels.
xz and zstd are also benchmarked with 256 KB blocks. The decompression
benchmark times how long it takes to `tar` the file tree into `/dev/null`.
See the benchmark file in the upstream zstd source repository located under
`contrib/linux-kernel/squashfs-benchmark.sh` [2] for details.

I ran the benchmarks on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with 2 cores and 4 GiB of RAM.
The VM is running on a MacBook Pro with a 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 processor,
16 GB of RAM, and a SSD.

| Method         | Ratio | Compression MB/s | Decompression MB/s |
|----------------|-------|------------------|--------------------|
| gzip           |  2.92 |               15 |                128 |
| lzo            |  2.64 |              9.5 |                217 |
| lz4            |  2.12 |               94 |                218 |
| xz             |  3.43 |              5.5 |                 35 |
| xz 256 KB      |  3.53 |              5.4 |                 40 |
| zstd 1         |  2.71 |               96 |                210 |
| zstd 5         |  2.93 |               69 |                198 |
| zstd 10        |  3.01 |               41 |                225 |
| zstd 15        |  3.13 |             11.4 |                224 |
| zstd 16 256 KB |  3.24 |              8.1 |                210 |

This patch was written by Sean Purcell <me@seanp.xyz>, but I will be
taking over the submission process.

[1] http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.10/
[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/squashfs-benchmark.sh

zstd source repository: https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Signed-off-by: Sean Purcell <me@seanp.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Acked-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
2017-09-08 19:33:25 -07:00
Phillip Lougher
62421645bb Squashfs: Add LZ4 compression configuration option
Add the glue code, and also update the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
2014-11-27 18:48:44 +00:00
Phillip Lougher
846b730e99 Squashfs: Generalise paging handling in the decompressors
Further generalise the decompressors by adding a page handler
abstraction.  This adds helpers to allow the decompressors
to access and process the output buffers in an implementation
independant manner.

This allows different types of output buffer to be passed
to the decompressors, with the implementation specific
aspects handled at decompression time, but without the
knowledge being held in the decompressor wrapper code.

This will allow the decompressors to handle Squashfs
cache buffers, and page cache pages.

This patch adds the abstraction and an implementation for
the caches.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
2013-11-20 03:59:01 +00:00
Phillip Lougher
9508c6b90b Squashfs: Refactor decompressor interface and code
The decompressor interface and code was written from
the point of view of single-threaded operation.  In doing
so it mixed a lot of single-threaded implementation specific
aspects into the decompressor code and elsewhere which makes it
difficult to seamlessly support multiple different decompressor
implementations.

This patch does the following:

1.  It removes compressor_options parsing from the decompressor
    init() function.  This allows the decompressor init() function
    to be dynamically called to instantiate multiple decompressors,
    without the compressor options needing to be read and parsed each
    time.

2.  It moves threading and all sleeping operations out of the
    decompressors.  In doing so, it makes the decompressors
    non-blocking wrappers which only deal with interfacing with
    the decompressor implementation.

3. It splits decompressor.[ch] into decompressor generic functions
   in decompressor.[ch], and moves the single threaded
   decompressor implementation into decompressor_single.c.

The result of this patch is Squashfs should now be able to
support multiple decompressors by adding new decompressor_xxx.c
files with specialised implementations of the functions in
decompressor_single.c

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
2013-11-20 03:35:18 +00:00
Phillip Lougher
cc6d349714 Squashfs: Make ZLIB compression support optional
Squashfs now supports XZ and LZO compression in addition to ZLIB.
As such it no longer makes sense to always include ZLIB support.
In particular embedded systems may only use LZO or XZ compression, and
the ability to exclude ZLIB support will reduce kernel size.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
2011-07-22 03:01:28 +01:00
Phillip Lougher
d7f2ff6718 Squashfs: update email address
My existing email address may stop working in a month or two, so update
email to one that will continue working.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2011-05-26 10:49:11 +01:00
Phillip Lougher
b7fc0ff09d Squashfs: extend decompressor framework to handle compression options
Extend decompressor framework to handle compression options stored in
the filesystem.  These options can be used by the relevant decompressor
at initialisation time to over-ride defaults.

The presence of compression options in the filesystem is indicated by
the COMP_OPT filesystem flag.  If present the data is read from the
filesystem and passed to the decompressor init function.  The decompressor
init function signature has been extended to take this data.

Also update the init function signature in the glib, lzo and xz
decompressor wrappers.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2011-02-28 18:21:59 +00:00
Phillip Lougher
01a678c5a2 Squashfs: simplify CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZO handling
Get rid of messy repeated #if(n)def CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZO code
in decompressor.c

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2011-01-13 21:38:46 +00:00
Phillip Lougher
7a43ae5237 Squashfs: Add XZ compression configuration option
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2011-01-13 21:16:52 +00:00
Phillip Lougher
4c0f0bb235 Squashfs: add a decompressor framework
This adds a decompressor framework which allows multiple compression
algorithms to be cleanly supported.

Also update zlib wrapper and other code to use the new framework.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2010-01-20 21:47:47 +00:00