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diff --git a/scripts/xz_wrap.sh b/scripts/xz_wrap.sh
index d06baf626abe..f19369687030 100755
--- a/scripts/xz_wrap.sh
+++ b/scripts/xz_wrap.sh
@@ -1,22 +1,162 @@
#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: 0BSD
#
# This is a wrapper for xz to compress the kernel image using appropriate
# compression options depending on the architecture.
#
# Author: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
+
+# This has specialized settings for the following archs. However,
+# XZ-compressed kernel isn't currently supported on every listed arch.
#
-# This file has been put into the public domain.
-# You can do whatever you want with this file.
-#
+# Arch Align Notes
+# arm 2/4 ARM and ARM-Thumb2
+# arm64 4
+# csky 2
+# loongarch 4
+# mips 2/4 MicroMIPS is 2-byte aligned
+# parisc 4
+# powerpc 4 Uses its own wrapper for compressors instead of this.
+# riscv 2/4
+# s390 2
+# sh 2
+# sparc 4
+# x86 1
+
+# A few archs use 2-byte or 4-byte aligned instructions depending on
+# the kernel config. This function is used to check if the relevant
+# config option is set to "y".
+is_enabled()
+{
+ grep -q "^$1=y$" include/config/auto.conf
+}
+
+# XZ_VERSION is needed to disable features that aren't available in
+# old XZ Utils versions.
+XZ_VERSION=$($XZ --robot --version) || exit
+XZ_VERSION=$(printf '%s\n' "$XZ_VERSION" | sed -n 's/^XZ_VERSION=//p')
+# Assume that no BCJ filter is available.
BCJ=
-LZMA2OPTS=
+# Set the instruction alignment to 1, 2, or 4 bytes.
+#
+# Set the BCJ filter if one is available.
+# It must match the #ifdef usage in lib/decompress_unxz.c.
case $SRCARCH in
- x86) BCJ=--x86 ;;
- powerpc) BCJ=--powerpc ;;
- arm) BCJ=--arm ;;
- sparc) BCJ=--sparc ;;
+ arm)
+ if is_enabled CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL; then
+ ALIGN=2
+ BCJ=--armthumb
+ else
+ ALIGN=4
+ BCJ=--arm
+ fi
+ ;;
+
+ arm64)
+ ALIGN=4
+
+ # ARM64 filter was added in XZ Utils 5.4.0.
+ if [ "$XZ_VERSION" -ge 50040002 ]; then
+ BCJ=--arm64
+ else
+ echo "$0: Upgrading to xz >= 5.4.0" \
+ "would enable the ARM64 filter" \
+ "for better compression" >&2
+ fi
+ ;;
+
+ csky)
+ ALIGN=2
+ ;;
+
+ loongarch)
+ ALIGN=4
+ ;;
+
+ mips)
+ if is_enabled CONFIG_CPU_MICROMIPS; then
+ ALIGN=2
+ else
+ ALIGN=4
+ fi
+ ;;
+
+ parisc)
+ ALIGN=4
+ ;;
+
+ powerpc)
+ ALIGN=4
+
+ # The filter is only for big endian instruction encoding.
+ if is_enabled CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN; then
+ BCJ=--powerpc
+ fi
+ ;;
+
+ riscv)
+ if is_enabled CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C; then
+ ALIGN=2
+ else
+ ALIGN=4
+ fi
+
+ # RISC-V filter was added in XZ Utils 5.6.0.
+ if [ "$XZ_VERSION" -ge 50060002 ]; then
+ BCJ=--riscv
+ else
+ echo "$0: Upgrading to xz >= 5.6.0" \
+ "would enable the RISC-V filter" \
+ "for better compression" >&2
+ fi
+ ;;
+
+ s390)
+ ALIGN=2
+ ;;
+
+ sh)
+ ALIGN=2
+ ;;
+
+ sparc)
+ ALIGN=4
+ BCJ=--sparc
+ ;;
+
+ x86)
+ ALIGN=1
+ BCJ=--x86
+ ;;
+
+ *)
+ echo "$0: Arch-specific tuning is missing for '$SRCARCH'" >&2
+
+ # Guess 2-byte-aligned instructions. Guessing too low
+ # should hurt less than guessing too high.
+ ALIGN=2
+ ;;
+esac
+
+# Select the LZMA2 options matching the instruction alignment.
+case $ALIGN in
+ 1) LZMA2OPTS= ;;
+ 2) LZMA2OPTS=lp=1 ;;
+ 4) LZMA2OPTS=lp=2,lc=2 ;;
+ *) echo "$0: ALIGN wrong or missing" >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
-exec $XZ --check=crc32 $BCJ --lzma2=$LZMA2OPTS,dict=32MiB
+# Use single-threaded mode because it compresses a little better
+# (and uses less RAM) than multithreaded mode.
+#
+# For the best compression, the dictionary size shouldn't be
+# smaller than the uncompressed kernel. 128 MiB dictionary
+# needs less than 1400 MiB of RAM in single-threaded mode.
+#
+# On the archs that use this script to compress the kernel,
+# decompression in the preboot code is done in single-call mode.
+# Thus the dictionary size doesn't affect the memory requirements
+# of the preboot decompressor at all.
+exec $XZ --check=crc32 --threads=1 $BCJ --lzma2=$LZMA2OPTS,dict=128MiB