History log of /linux-master/lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 9fec9f8e 26-Jan-2023 Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>

lib/zlib: Split deflate and inflate states for DFLTCC

Currently deflate and inflate both use a common state struct. There are
several variables in this struct that we don't need for inflate, and
more may be coming in the future. Therefore split them in two separate
structs.
Apart from that, introduce separate headers for dfltcc_deflate and
dfltcc_inflate.

This commit is based on:
https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/commit/c592b1b

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126131428.1222214-7-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# 4cc06c9a 26-Jan-2023 Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>

lib/zlib: adjust offset calculation for dfltcc_state

Patch series "lib/zlib: Set of s390 DFLTCC related patches for kernel zlib".

Patches 1-7 represent a set of s390 zlib hardware support (DFLTCC) related
fixes and enhancements integrated from zlib-ng repo relevant to kernel
zlib (https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng).

Since the official zlib repository never got DFLTCC support code merged,
all the patches have been picked from zlib-ng fork (zlib data compression
library for the next generation systems). This repo contains new
optimizations and fixes not getting implemented into the official zlib
repository and falls under the same zlib License. All of the original
patches from zlib-ng were authored by Ilya Leoshkevich
<iii@linux.ibm.com>. Coding style has been preserved for future
maintainability.

Patches 1-2 should have no effect for the kernel zlib but make the code
closer to zlib-ng for future maintainability.

Only Patch 3 touches common zlib_deflate code, other patches are relevant
to s390 tree only.

Patch 8 is separate and intends to resolve an issue with kernel PPP driver
which can use kernel zlib for packet compression. Without this patch PPP
decompression can fail due to error code returned by hardware
(dfltcc_inflate) and PPP disables zlib compression for further packets.


This patch (of 8):

This commit is based on:
https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/commit/d8b67f5

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126131428.1222214-1-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126131428.1222214-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> (s390)
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# 803521b1 30-Jan-2020 Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>

lib/zlib: add zlib_deflate_dfltcc_enabled() function

Add a new function to zlib.h checking if s390 Deflate-Conversion
facility is installed and enabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200103223334.20669-6-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c65e6815 30-Jan-2020 Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>

s390/boot: add dfltcc= kernel command line parameter

Add the new kernel command line parameter 'dfltcc=' to configure s390
zlib hardware support.

Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
level 1 and decompression (default)
off: No s390 zlib hardware support
def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
only (compression on level 1)
inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
only (decompression)
always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
level always using hardware support (used for debugging)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200103223334.20669-5-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 12619610 30-Jan-2020 Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>

lib/zlib: add s390 hardware support for kernel zlib_inflate

Add decompression functions to zlib_dfltcc library. Update zlib_inflate
functions with the hooks for s390 hardware support and adjust workspace
structures with extra parameter lists required for hardware inflate
decompression.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200103223334.20669-4-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Co-developed-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# aa5b395b 30-Jan-2020 Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>

lib/zlib: add s390 hardware support for kernel zlib_deflate

Patch series "S390 hardware support for kernel zlib", v3.

With IBM z15 mainframe the new DFLTCC instruction is available. It
implements deflate algorithm in hardware (Nest Acceleration Unit - NXU)
with estimated compression and decompression performance orders of
magnitude faster than the current zlib.

This patchset adds s390 hardware compression support to kernel zlib.
The code is based on the userspace zlib implementation:

https://github.com/madler/zlib/pull/410

The coding style is also preserved for future maintainability. There is
only limited set of userspace zlib functions represented in kernel.
Apart from that, all the memory allocation should be performed in
advance. Thus, the workarea structures are extended with the parameter
lists required for the DEFLATE CONVENTION CALL instruction.

Since kernel zlib itself does not support gzip headers, only Adler-32
checksum is processed (also can be produced by DFLTCC facility). Like
it was implemented for userspace, kernel zlib will compress in hardware
on level 1, and in software on all other levels. Decompression will
always happen in hardware (when enabled).

Two DFLTCC compression calls produce the same results only when they
both are made on machines of the same generation, and when the
respective buffers have the same offset relative to the start of the
page. Therefore care should be taken when using hardware compression
when reproducible results are desired. However it does always produce
the standard conform output which can be inflated anyway.

The new kernel command line parameter 'dfltcc' is introduced to
configure s390 zlib hardware support:

Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
level 1 and decompression (default)
off: No s390 zlib hardware support
def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
only (compression on level 1)
inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
only (decompression)
always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
level always using hardware support (used for debugging)

The main purpose of the integration of the NXU support into the kernel
zlib is the use of hardware deflate in btrfs filesystem with on-the-fly
compression enabled. Apart from that, hardware support can also be used
during boot for decompressing the kernel or the ramdisk image

With the patch for btrfs expanding zlib buffer from 1 to 4 pages (patch
6) the following performance results have been achieved using the
ramdisk with btrfs. These are relative numbers based on throughput rate
and compression ratio for zlib level 1:

Input data Deflate rate Inflate rate Compression ratio
NXU/Software NXU/Software NXU/Software
stream of zeroes 1.46 1.02 1.00
random ASCII data 10.44 3.00 0.96
ASCII text (dickens) 6,21 3.33 0.94
binary data (vmlinux) 8,37 3.90 1.02

This means that s390 hardware deflate can provide up to 10 times faster
compression (on level 1) and up to 4 times faster decompression (refers
to all compression levels) for btrfs zlib.

Disclaimer: Performance results are based on IBM internal tests using DD
command-line utility on btrfs on a Fedora 30 based internal driver in
native LPAR on a z15 system. Results may vary based on individual
workload, configuration and software levels.

This patch (of 9):

Create zlib_dfltcc library with the s390 DEFLATE CONVERSION CALL
implementation and related compression functions. Update zlib_deflate
functions with the hooks for s390 hardware support and adjust workspace
structures with extra parameter lists required for hardware deflate.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200103223334.20669-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Co-developed-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>