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diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 396da16aabf8..1c702ca8aac8 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -262,6 +262,34 @@ cmd_lzo = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | \
         lzop -9 && $(call size_append, $(filter-out FORCE,$^))) > $@ || \
         (rm -f $@ ; false)
 
+# XZ
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Use xzkern to compress the kernel image and xzmisc to compress other things.
+#
+# xzkern uses a big LZMA2 dictionary since it doesn't increase memory usage
+# of the kernel decompressor. A BCJ filter is used if it is available for
+# the target architecture. xzkern also appends uncompressed size of the data
+# using size_append. The .xz format has the size information available at
+# the end of the file too, but it's in more complex format and it's good to
+# avoid changing the part of the boot code that reads the uncompressed size.
+# Note that the bytes added by size_append will make the xz tool think that
+# the file is corrupt. This is expected.
+#
+# xzmisc doesn't use size_append, so it can be used to create normal .xz
+# files. xzmisc uses smaller LZMA2 dictionary than xzkern, because a very
+# big dictionary would increase the memory usage too much in the multi-call
+# decompression mode. A BCJ filter isn't used either.
+quiet_cmd_xzkern = XZKERN  $@
+cmd_xzkern = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | \
+        sh $(srctree)/scripts/xz_wrap.sh && \
+        $(call size_append, $(filter-out FORCE,$^))) > $@ || \
+        (rm -f $@ ; false)
+
+quiet_cmd_xzmisc = XZMISC  $@
+cmd_xzmisc = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | \
+        xz --check=crc32 --lzma2=dict=1MiB) > $@ || \
+        (rm -f $@ ; false)
+
 # misc stuff
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 quote:="
diff --git a/scripts/xz_wrap.sh b/scripts/xz_wrap.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..17a5798c29da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/xz_wrap.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# 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 file has been put into the public domain.
+# You can do whatever you want with this file.
+#
+
+BCJ=
+LZMA2OPTS=
+
+case $ARCH in
+        x86|x86_64)     BCJ=--x86 ;;
+        powerpc)        BCJ=--powerpc ;;
+        ia64)           BCJ=--ia64; LZMA2OPTS=pb=4 ;;
+        arm)            BCJ=--arm ;;
+        sparc)          BCJ=--sparc ;;
+esac
+
+exec xz --check=crc32 $BCJ --lzma2=$LZMA2OPTS,dict=32MiB