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authorDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>2007-03-14 16:32:17 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-03-16 16:38:19 +1100
commit7850ad5c39a40ae14ab37e030357e2ae8252af2b (patch)
treec384344139d0153ed54de2e051a7023437b856b2 /arch/powerpc/boot
parent0e0293c898c424c52e5d4e7f6923a203d06b9c4b (diff)
[POWERPC] Add documentation for the zImage's gunzip convenience functions
This patch adds documenting comments to the gunzip convenience functions added in commit ad9d2716cfc1cda5a7e0d7bc0db45e3af8a4adbb. It also removes a stray newline, and an unused global variable. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/boot')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.c81
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.h17
2 files changed, 95 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.c
index 3d9ff8f081c..f7c95f24fcd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.c
@@ -14,14 +14,31 @@
#include "ops.h"
#include "gunzip_util.h"
-struct gunzip_state state;
-
#define HEAD_CRC 2
#define EXTRA_FIELD 4
#define ORIG_NAME 8
#define COMMENT 0x10
#define RESERVED 0xe0
+/**
+ * gunzip_start - prepare to decompress gzip data
+ * @state: decompressor state structure to be initialized
+ * @src: buffer containing gzip compressed or uncompressed data
+ * @srclen: size in bytes of the buffer at src
+ *
+ * If the buffer at @src contains a gzip header, this function
+ * initializes zlib to decompress the data, storing the decompression
+ * state in @state. The other functions in this file can then be used
+ * to decompress data from the gzipped stream.
+ *
+ * If the buffer at @src does not contain a gzip header, it is assumed
+ * to contain uncompressed data. The buffer information is recorded
+ * in @state and the other functions in this file will simply copy
+ * data from the uncompressed data stream at @src.
+ *
+ * Any errors, such as bad compressed data, cause an error to be
+ * printed an the platform's exit() function to be called.
+ */
void gunzip_start(struct gunzip_state *state, void *src, int srclen)
{
char *hdr = src;
@@ -73,6 +90,22 @@ void gunzip_start(struct gunzip_state *state, void *src, int srclen)
state->s.avail_in = srclen - hdrlen;
}
+/**
+ * gunzip_partial - extract bytes from a gzip data stream
+ * @state: gzip state structure previously initialized by gunzip_start()
+ * @dst: buffer to store extracted data
+ * @dstlen: maximum number of bytes to extract
+ *
+ * This function extracts at most @dstlen bytes from the data stream
+ * previously associated with @state by gunzip_start(), decompressing
+ * if necessary. Exactly @dstlen bytes are extracted unless the data
+ * stream doesn't contain enough bytes, in which case the entire
+ * remainder of the stream is decompressed.
+ *
+ * Returns the actual number of bytes extracted. If any errors occur,
+ * such as a corrupted compressed stream, an error is printed an the
+ * platform's exit() function is called.
+ */
int gunzip_partial(struct gunzip_state *state, void *dst, int dstlen)
{
int len;
@@ -99,6 +132,20 @@ int gunzip_partial(struct gunzip_state *state, void *dst, int dstlen)
return len;
}
+/**
+ * gunzip_exactly - extract a fixed number of bytes from a gzip data stream
+ * @state: gzip state structure previously initialized by gunzip_start()
+ * @dst: buffer to store extracted data
+ * @dstlen: number of bytes to extract
+ *
+ * This function extracts exactly @dstlen bytes from the data stream
+ * previously associated with @state by gunzip_start(), decompressing
+ * if necessary.
+ *
+ * If there are less @dstlen bytes available in the data stream, or if
+ * any other errors occur, such as a corrupted compressed stream, an
+ * error is printed an the platform's exit() function is called.
+ */
void gunzip_exactly(struct gunzip_state *state, void *dst, int dstlen)
{
int len;
@@ -110,6 +157,21 @@ void gunzip_exactly(struct gunzip_state *state, void *dst, int dstlen)
}
}
+/**
+ * gunzip_discard - discard bytes from a gzip data stream
+ * @state: gzip state structure previously initialized by gunzip_start()
+ * @len: number of bytes to discard
+ *
+ * This function extracts, then discards exactly @len bytes from the
+ * data stream previously associated with @state by gunzip_start().
+ * Subsequent gunzip_partial(), gunzip_exactly() or gunzip_finish()
+ * calls will extract the data following the discarded bytes in the
+ * data stream.
+ *
+ * If there are less @len bytes available in the data stream, or if
+ * any other errors occur, such as a corrupted compressed stream, an
+ * error is printed an the platform's exit() function is called.
+ */
void gunzip_discard(struct gunzip_state *state, int len)
{
static char discard_buf[128];
@@ -123,6 +185,21 @@ void gunzip_discard(struct gunzip_state *state, int len)
gunzip_exactly(state, discard_buf, len);
}
+/**
+ * gunzip_finish - extract all remaining bytes from a gzip data stream
+ * @state: gzip state structure previously initialized by gunzip_start()
+ * @dst: buffer to store extracted data
+ * @dstlen: maximum number of bytes to extract
+ *
+ * This function extracts all remaining data, or at most @dstlen
+ * bytes, from the stream previously associated with @state by
+ * gunzip_start(). zlib is then shut down, so it is an error to use
+ * any of the functions in this file on @state until it is
+ * re-initialized with another call to gunzip_start().
+ *
+ * If any errors occur, such as a corrupted compressed stream, an
+ * error is printed an the platform's exit() function is called.
+ */
int gunzip_finish(struct gunzip_state *state, void *dst, int dstlen)
{
int len;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.h b/arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.h
index 950f62fe0a6..b3dfa6e87b3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.h
@@ -12,6 +12,22 @@
#include "zlib.h"
+/*
+ * These functions are designed to make life easy for decompressing
+ * kernel images, initrd images or any other gzip compressed image,
+ * particularly if its useful to decompress part of the image (e.g. to
+ * examine headers) before decompressing the remainder.
+ *
+ * To use:
+ * - declare a gunzip_state structure
+ * - use gunzip_start() to initialize the state, associating it
+ * with a stream of compressed data
+ * - use gunzip_partial(), gunzip_exactly() and gunzip_discard()
+ * in any combination to extract pieces of data from the stream
+ * - Finally use gunzip_finish() to extract the tail of the
+ * compressed stream and wind up zlib
+ */
+
/* scratch space for gunzip; 46912 is from zlib_inflate_workspacesize() */
#define GUNZIP_SCRATCH_SIZE 46912
@@ -27,4 +43,3 @@ void gunzip_discard(struct gunzip_state *state, int len);
int gunzip_finish(struct gunzip_state *state, void *dst, int len);
#endif /* _PPC_BOOT_GUNZIP_UTIL_H_ */
-