kbuild: add cmd_file_size
authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Sun, 9 Jan 2022 18:15:29 +0000 (03:15 +0900)
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:57:43 +0000 (02:57 +0900)
commitc4d7f40b250c1a4d74ed259e84807f58032507b6
tree5bbc3df1fd721ce81d9b4cbb0391f509e8231830
parent53e7b5dfb752399cd903ecb6e921dcaef57c8ea5
kbuild: add cmd_file_size

Some architectures support self-extracting kernel, which embeds the
compressed vmlinux.

It has 4 byte data at the end so the decompressor can know the vmlinux
size beforehand.

GZIP natively has it in the trailer, but for the other compression
algorithms, the hand-crafted trailer is added.

It is unneeded to generate such _corrupted_ compressed files because
it is possible to pass the size data as a separate file.

For example, the assembly code:

     .incbin "compressed-vmlinux-with-size-data"

can be transformed to:

     .incbin "compressed-vmlinux"
     .incbin "size-data"

My hope is, after some reworks of the decompressors, the macros
cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}_with_size will go away.

This new macro, cmd_file_size, will be useful to generate a separate
size-data file.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
scripts/Makefile.lib