Flushing kernel image after decompression was taking 113 milliseconds
with U-boot 2022.10. With U-boot 2023.01 and 2023.04, flushing
the same amount of memory takes approx 1.5 seconds. With
U-boot 2023.07-rc6, it takes 6.5 seconds.
powerpc flush_cache() function used to call WATCHDOG_RESET() after
flushing every cacheline. At that time WATCHDOG_RESET() was light
so the operation was almost seamless.
But commit 29caf9305b ("cyclic: Use schedule() instead of
WATCHDOG_RESET()") replaced WATCHDOG_RESET() by schedule() and that
started to hurt with U-boot 2022.10.
And in U-boot 2023.07-rc6 that's even worse after
commit 26e8ebcd7c ("watchdog: mpc8xxx: Make it generic").
In the meantime commit 729c1fe656 ("powerpc: introduce
CONFIG_CACHE_FLUSH_WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD") gives us the opportinity to
only call schedule() every given chunk of data instead of every
cacheline. As explained in that commit there is no point in pinging
the watchdog after every cacheline flush, so lets define a sensible
default chunk size of 4k which matches to size of a page on most
powerpc platforms.
With that new default threshold, the culprit flushing performed after
kernel image decompression now takes 85 milliseconds on a powerpc 8xx.
Fixes: 29caf9305b ("cyclic: Use schedule() instead of WATCHDOG_RESET()")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
When flush_cache() is called during boot on our ~7M kernel image, the
hundreds of thousands of WATCHDOG_RESET calls end up adding
significantly to boottime. Flushing a single cache line doesn't take
many microseconds, so doing these calls for every cache line is
complete overkill.
The generic watchdog_reset() provided by wdt-uclass.c actually
contains some rate-limiting logic that should in theory mitigate this,
but alas, that rate-limiting must be disabled on powerpc because of
its get_timer() implementation - get_timer() works just fine until
interrupts are disabled, but it just so happens that the "big"
flush_cache() call happens in the part of bootm where interrupts are
indeed disabled. [1] [2] [3]
I have checked with objdump that the generated code doesn't change
when this option is left at its default value of 0: gcc is smart
enough to see that the ">=" comparison is tautologically true, hence
all assignments to "flushed" are eliminated as dead stores.
On our board, setting the option to something like 65536 ends up
reducing total boottime by about 0.8 seconds.
[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20200605111657.28773-1-rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk/
[2] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-April/446906.html
[3] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-April/447280.html
Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>
immap.c used to be common to several CPUs. It is now
only linked to the 8xx, so this patch moves it into
arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
CS Systemes d'Information (CSSI) manufactures 8xx boards for
critical communication systems. Those boards have been
running U-Boot since 2010 and will have to be maintained
until at least 2027.
commit 5b8e76c35e
("powerpc, 8xx: remove support for 8xx") orphaned those boards
by removing support for the mpc8xx CPU.
This commit partially restores support for the 8xx, with the
following limitations:
- Restores support for MPC866 and MPC885 only
- Does not restore IDE, PCMCIA, I2C, USB
- Does not restore examples
- Does not restore POST
- Does not restore Ethernet on SCC
- Does not restore console on SCC
- Does not restore bedbug and kgdb support
As the 866 and 885 do not support the following features,
they are not restored either:
- VIDEO / LCD
- RTC clock
The CPM uCODE patch is not restored either, because:
- 866 and 885 already have support for I2C and SPI relocation
without a uCODE patch
- relocation of SMC, I2C or SPI is only needed for using SCCs
for Ethernet or QMC
The dynamic setup/calculation of clocks is removed, we
expect the target being use with the clock and PLPRCR register
defined in the configuration.
All the clock settings for 8xx prior to 866 is removed as
well as we now only support 866 and 885.
This code is mature and addresses mature boards. Therefore
all code enclosed in '#if 0/#endif' and '#if XX_DEBUG/#endif'
is unneeded.
The following files are not restored by this patch:
- arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/bedbug_860.c
- arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/fec.h
- arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/kgdb.S
- arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/plprcr_write.S
- arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/scc.c
- arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/upatch.c
- arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/video.c
- arch/powerpc/include/asm/status_led.h
- arch/powerpc/lib/ide.c
- arch/powerpc/lib/ide.h
- doc/README.MPC866
- drivers/pcmcia/mpc8xx_pcmcia.c
- drivers/rtc/mpc8xx.c
- drivers/usb/gadget/mpc8xx_udc.c
- drivers/video/mpc8xx_lcd.c
- examples/standalone/test_burst.c
- examples/standalone/test_burst.h
- examples/standalone/test_burst_lib.S
- examples/standalone/timer.c
- include/mpc823_lcd.h
- include/usb/mpc8xx_udc.h
- post/cpu/mpc8xx/Makefile
- post/cpu/mpc8xx/cache.c
- post/cpu/mpc8xx/cache_8xx.S
- post/cpu/mpc8xx/ether.c
- post/cpu/mpc8xx/spr.c
- post/cpu/mpc8xx/uart.c
- post/cpu/mpc8xx/usb.c
- post/cpu/mpc8xx/watchdog.c
Some of the restored files are not located in a proper location.
In order to keep traceability of the changes, they will be
moved to their correct location and moved to Kconfig in a
followup patch.
This patch also declares CSSI as point of contact for the update
of the 8xx platform, as those boards are the only ones still
being maintained on the 8xx area. A later patch will add
those boards to the tree.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
There was for long time no activity in the 8260 area.
We need to go further and convert to Kconfig, but it
turned out, nobody is interested anymore in 8260,
so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
This converts the following to Kconfig:
CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP
Also move this command out of the cmd/ directory since it is
PowerPC-specific.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
