[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] arm: reduce .bss section clear time

Przemyslaw Marczak
2015-01-28T12:55:40Z

This patchset reduces the boot time for ARM architecture,
Exynos boards, and boards with DFU enabled(ARM).

For tested Trats2 device, this was done in three steps.

First was enable the arch memcpy and memset.
The second step was enable memset for .bss clear.
The third step for reduce this operation is to keep .bss section
small as possible.

The .bss section will grow if we have a lot of static variables.
This section is cleared before jump to the relocated U-Boot,
and it's done word by word. To reduce the time for this step,
we can enable arch memset, which uses multiple ARM registers.

For configs with DFU enabled, we can find the dfu buffer in this section,
which has at least 8MB (32MB for trats2). This is a lot of useless data,
which is not required for standard boot. So this buffer should be dynamic
allocated.

Przemyslaw Marczak (3):
exynos: config: enable arch memcpy and arch memset
arm: relocation: clear .bss section with arch memset if defined
dfu: mmc: file buffer: remove static allocation

arch/arm/lib/crt0.S | 10 +++++++++-
drivers/dfu/dfu_mmc.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
include/configs/exynos-common.h | 3 +++
3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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