| Message ID | 20240424163422.23276-1-dpsmith@apertussolutions.com (mailing list archive) |
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| Series | Clean up of gzip decompressor | expand |
On 4/24/24 12:34, Daniel P. Smith wrote: > An issue ran into by hyperlaunch was the need to use the gzip decompressor > multiple times. The current implementation fails when reused due to tainting of > decompressor state from a previous usage. This series seeks to colocate the > gzip unit files under a single directory similar to the other decompression > algorithms. To enable the refactoring of the state tracking, the code is then > cleaned up in line with Xen coding style. > Forgot to add this comment to the cover letter. Concern was raised about taking updates from original source to the code. In this case the original source is from the Linux kernel, which can be found in lib/inflate.c, and added to Xen in 2009. The last time there was a logic change to that code in the Linux kernel was in 2008, before it was added to Xen. Since then, it has only been updated for changes made to included headers. If fact, as far as I can see, while the file is still in place, nothing uses it. For zlib decompression, three is a new lib/zlib_deflate code base that is used. The scope of this work is not to completely fix/replace zlib decompression for Xen, but to stabilize it to allow hyperlaunch to decompress more than one zlib compressed kernel. V/r, Daniel P. Smith
On 24/04/2024 5:34 pm, Daniel P. Smith wrote: > An issue ran into by hyperlaunch was the need to use the gzip decompressor > multiple times. The current implementation fails when reused due to tainting of > decompressor state from a previous usage. This series seeks to colocate the > gzip unit files under a single directory similar to the other decompression > algorithms. To enable the refactoring of the state tracking, the code is then > cleaned up in line with Xen coding style. > > Changes in v3: > - patch "xen/gzip: Drop huffman code table tracking" was merged > - patch "xen/gzip: Remove custom memory allocator" was merged > - patch "xen/gzip: Drop unused define checks" was merged > - move of the decompressor state into struct was broken up to ease review > - expanded macros that were either only used once or obsfucated the logic > - adjusted variable types as needed to be more appropriate for their usage > > Changes in v2: > - patch "xen/gzip: Colocate gunzip code files" was merged > - dropped ifdef chunks that are never enabled > - addressed formatting changes missed in v1 > - replaced custom memory allocator with xalloc_bytes() > - renamed gzip_data to gzip_state > - moved gzip_state to being dynamically allocated > - changed crc table to the explicit size of uint32_t > - instead of moving huffman tracking into state, dropped altogether > > > Daniel P. Smith (8): > gzip: clean up comments and fix code alignment > gzip: refactor and expand macros > gzip: refactor the gunzip window into common state > gzip: move window pointer into gunzip state > gzip: move input buffer handling into gunzip state > gzip: move output buffer into gunzip state > gzip: move bitbuffer into gunzip state > gzip: move crc state into gunzip state In hindsight my suggestion that lead to "refactor and expand macros" wasn't great. We want to keep the underrun labels for a future when the error handling isn't panic(). After that, expanding flush_window() is better folded into "refactor the gunzip window into common state" to reduce the churn. As that was my fault, and unpicking it is reasonably hard, and we're on a tight deadline for 4.19 now, I've gone ahead and unpicked this. Also I've rebased over Jan's patch addressing the memory leaks reported by Coverity, as the two sets of fixes collide, along with various other minor notes. I've conferred with Daniel who is happy with the aformentioned changes. This area of code still has a lot of work needing doing on it, but removing the use of global state is a concrete improvement in the status quo. ~Andrew