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66 lines
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# ZSTD-On-ZFS Library Manual
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## Introduction
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This subtree contains the ZSTD library used in ZFS. It is heavily cut-down by
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dropping any unneeded files, and combined into a single file, but otherwise is
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intentionally unmodified. Please do not alter the file containing the zstd
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library, besides upgrading to a newer ZSTD release.
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Tree structure:
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* `zfs_zstd.c` is the actual `zzstd` kernel module.
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* `lib/` contains the unmodified, [_"amalgamated"_](https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/single_file_libs/README.md)
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version of the `Zstandard` library, generated from our template file
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* `zstd-in.c` is our template file for generating the library
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* `include/`: This directory contains supplemental includes for platform
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compatibility, which are not expected to be used by ZFS elsewhere in the
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future. Thus we keep them private to ZSTD.
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## Updating ZSTD
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To update ZSTD the following steps need to be taken:
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1. Grab the latest release of [ZSTD](https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases).
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2. Update `module/zstd/zstd-in.c` if required. (see
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`zstd/contrib/single_file_libs/zstd-in.c` in the zstd repository)
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3. Generate the "single-file-library" and put it to `module/zstd/lib/`.
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4. Copy the following files to `module/zstd/lib/`:
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- `zstd/lib/zstd.h`
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- `zstd/lib/common/zstd_errors.h`
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This can be done using a few shell commands from inside the zfs repo:
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~~~sh
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cd PATH/TO/ZFS
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url="https://github.com/facebook/zstd"
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release="$(curl -s "${url}"/releases/latest | grep -oP '(?<=v)[\d\.]+')"
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zstd="/tmp/zstd-${release}/"
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wget -O /tmp/zstd.tar.gz \
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"${url}/releases/download/v${release}/zstd-${release}.tar.gz"
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tar -C /tmp -xzf /tmp/zstd.tar.gz
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cp ${zstd}/lib/zstd.h module/zstd/lib/
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cp ${zstd}/lib/zstd_errors.h module/zstd/lib/
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${zstd}/contrib/single_file_libs/combine.sh \
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-r ${zstd}/lib -o module/zstd/lib/zstd.c module/zstd/zstd-in.c
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~~~
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Note: if the zstd library for zfs is updated to a newer version,
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the macro list in include/zstd_compat_wrapper.h usually needs to be updated.
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this can be done with some hand crafting of the output of the following
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script: nm zstd.o | awk '{print "#define "$3 " zfs_" $3}' > macrotable
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## Altering ZSTD and breaking changes
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If ZSTD made changes that break compatibility or you need to make breaking
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changes to the way we handle ZSTD, it is required to maintain backwards
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compatibility.
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We already save the ZSTD version number within the block header to be used
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to add future compatibility checks and/or fixes. However, currently it is
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not actually used in such a way.
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