This patch has been edited to apply to squashfs 4.4, commit
52eb4c279cd283ed9802dd1ceb686560b22ffb67. Below is the original
message body of the patch.
From 7bda7c75748f36b0a50f93e46144d5a4de4974ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amin Hassani <ahassani@google.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:43:15 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mksquashfs 4K aligns the files inside the squashfs image
Files inside a squashfs image are not necessarily 4k (4096)
aligned. This patch starts each file in a 4k aligned address and pads
zero to the end of the file until it reaches the next 4k aligned
address. This will not change the size of the compressed
blocks (especially the last one) and hence it will not change how the
files are being loaded in kernel or unsquashfs. However on average this
increases the size of the squashfs image which can be calculated by the
following formula:
increased_size = (number_of_unfragmented_files_in_image + number of fragments) * 2048
The 4k alignment can be enabled by flag '-4k-align'
---
squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c b/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c
index a45b77f..07b1c06 100644
--- a/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c
+++ b/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c
@@ -102,7 +102,9 @@ int old_exclude = TRUE;
int use_regex = FALSE;
int nopad = FALSE;
int exit_on_error = FALSE;
+int do_4k_align = FALSE;
long long start_offset = 0;
+#define ALIGN_UP(bytes, size) (bytes = (bytes + size - 1) & ~(size - 1))
long long global_uid = -1, global_gid = -1;
@@ -1546,6 +1548,9 @@ void unlock_fragments()
* queue at this time.
*/
while(!queue_empty(locked_fragment)) {
+ // 4k align the start of remaining queued fragments.
+ if(do_4k_align)
+ ALIGN_UP(bytes, 4096);
write_buffer = queue_get(locked_fragment);
frg = write_buffer->block;
size = SQUASHFS_COMPRESSED_SIZE_BLOCK(fragment_table[frg].size);
@@ -2478,6 +2483,9 @@ void *frag_deflator(void *arg)
write_buffer->size = compressed_size;
pthread_mutex_lock(&fragment_mutex);
if(fragments_locked == FALSE) {
+ // 4k align the start of each fragment.
+ if(do_4k_align)
+ ALIGN_UP(bytes, 4096);
fragment_table[file_buffer->block].size = c_byte;
fragment_table[file_buffer->block].start_block = bytes;
write_buffer->block = bytes;
@@ -2877,6 +2885,10 @@ int write_file_blocks(squashfs_inode *inode, struct dir_ent *dir_ent,
long long sparse = 0;
struct file_buffer *fragment_buffer = NULL;
+ // 4k align the start of each file.
+ if(do_4k_align)
+ ALIGN_UP(bytes, 4096);
+
if(pre_duplicate(read_size))
return write_file_blocks_dup(inode, dir_ent, read_buffer, dup);
@@ -4972,6 +4984,7 @@ void write_filesystem_tables(struct squashfs_super_block *sBlk, int nopad)
"compressed", no_fragments ? "no" : noF ? "uncompressed" :
"compressed", no_xattrs ? "no" : noX ? "uncompressed" :
"compressed", noI || noId ? "uncompressed" : "compressed");
+ printf("\t4k %saligned\n", do_4k_align ? "" : "un");
printf("\tduplicates are %sremoved\n", duplicate_checking ? "" :
"not ");
printf("Filesystem size %.2f Kbytes (%.2f Mbytes)\n", bytes / 1024.0,
@@ -5853,6 +5866,8 @@ print_compressor_options:
root_name = argv[i];
} else if(strcmp(argv[i], "-version") == 0) {
VERSION();
+ } else if(strcmp(argv[i], "-4k-align") == 0) {
+ do_4k_align = TRUE;
} else {
ERROR("%s: invalid option\n\n", argv[0]);
printOptions:
@@ -5904,6 +5919,7 @@ printOptions:
ERROR("\t\t\tdirectory containing that directory, "
"rather than the\n");
ERROR("\t\t\tcontents of the directory\n");
+ ERROR("-4k-align\t\tenables 4k alignment of all files\n");
ERROR("\nFilesystem filter options:\n");
ERROR("-p <pseudo-definition>\tAdd pseudo file "
"definition\n");
--
2.23.0