Linaro GCC 4.8 Optimizations, Graphite flags enabled
This will heavily modify the Makefile to include Optimizations for GCC 4.8.3
This will work also on any 4.8.3 Toolchain

Big thanks to @sparksco <sparksco@gmail.com>
Linux 3.4.88
lib/memcopy: use glibc version

the kernel's memcpy and memmove is very inefficient. But the glibc version is
quite fast, in some cases it is 10 times faster than the kernel version. So I
introduce some memory copy macros and functions of the glibc to improve the
kernel version's performance.

The strategy of the memory functions is:
1. Copy bytes until the destination pointer is aligned.
2. Copy words in unrolled loops.  If the source and destination are not
   aligned in the same way, use word memory operations, but shift and merge
   two read words before writing.
3. Copy the few remaining bytes.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox*******>
Signed-off-by: faux123 <reioux@gmail.com>
lib/string: use glibc version

the performance of memcpy and memmove of the general version is very
inefficient, this patch improved them.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox*******>
Signed-off-by: faux123 <reioux@gmail.com>
switch the protection of percpu_counter list to spinlock

... making percpu_counter_destroy() non-blocking

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
decompressor: Add LZ4 decompressor module

Date	Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:24:27 +0900

This patch adds support for LZ4 decompression in the Linux Kernel.
LZ4 Decompression APIs for kernel are based on LZ4 implementation
by Yann Collet.

LZ4 homepage : http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/lz4.html
LZ4 source repository : http://code.google.com/p/lz4/

Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>

v2:
- Clean up code
- Enable unaligned access for ARM v6 and above with
  CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
- Add lz4_decompress() for faster decompression with
  uncompressed output size

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
lib: Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel

Date	Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:24:28 +0900

This patch adds support for extracting LZ4-compressed kernel images,
as well as LZ4-compressed ramdisk images in the kernel boot process.

This depends on the patch below
decompressor: Add LZ4 decompressor module

Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>

v2:
- Clean up code
- Use lz4_decompress() for LZ4-compressed kernel during boot-process

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
lib: Add lz4 compressor module

From	Chanho Min <>

This patch adds support for LZ4 compression in the Linux Kernel.
LZ4 Compression APIs for kernel are based on LZ4 implementation
by Yann Collet and changed with kernel coding style.

LZ4 homepage : http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/lz4.html
LZ4 source repository : http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
svn revision : r90

Two APIs are added:
lz4_compress() support basic lz4 compression whereas lz4hc_compress() support
high compression or CPU performance get lower but compression ratio get higher.
Also, we require the pre-allocated working memory with the defined size and
destination buffer must be allocated with the size of lz4_compressbound.

Signed-off-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
lib/lz4/lz4_compress: fix macro usage error

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
LZ4: compression/decompression signedness mismatch (v2)

LZ4 compression and decompression functions require different
in signedness input/output parameters: unsigned char for
compression and signed char for decompression.

Change decompression API to require "(const) unsigned char *".

v2: minor coding style fix.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>