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Masked ROMs are the silent killers of boot speed on devices without
memory-mapped SPI flash. They often contain awfully slow SPI drivers
(presumably bit-banged) that take hundreds of milliseconds to load our
bootblock, and every extra kilobyte of bootblock size has a hugely
disproportionate impact on boot speed. The coreboot timestamps can never
show that component, but it impacts our users all the same.
This patch tries to alleviate that issue a bit by allowing us to
compress the bootblock with LZ4, which can cut its size down to nearly
half. Of course, masked ROMs usually don't come with decompression
algorithms built in, so we need to introduce a little decompression stub
that can decompress the rest of the bootblock. This is done by creating
a new "decompressor" stage which runs before the bootblock, but includes
the compressed bootblock code in its data section. It needs to be as
small as possible to get a real benefit from this approach, which means
no device drivers, no console output, no exception handling, etc.
Besides the decompression algorithm itself we only include the timer
driver so that we can measure the boot speed impact of decompression. On
ARM and ARM64 systems, we also need to give SoC code a chance to
initialize the MMU, since running decompression without MMU is
prohibitively slow on these architectures.
This feature is implemented for ARM and ARM64 architectures for now,
although most of it is architecture-independent and it should be
relatively simple to port to other platforms where a masked ROM loads
the bootblock into SRAM. It is also supposed to be a clean starting
point from which later optimizations can hopefully cut down the
decompression stub size (currently ~4K on RK3399) a bit more.
NOTE: Bootblock compression is not for everyone. Possible side effects
include trying to run LZ4 on CPUs that come out of reset extremely
underclocked or enabling this too early in SoC bring-up and getting
frustrated trying to find issues in an undebuggable environment. Ask
your SoC vendor if bootblock compression is right for you.
Change-Id: I0dc1cad9ae7508892e477739e743cd1afb5945e8
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/26340
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
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For x86, we place the .id section at 4GiB - CONFIG_ID_SECTION_OFFSET.
To take effect, we have to guard the conflicting default placement in
`program.ld`. Also, as we only include the .id section into the boot-
block, guard it by ENV_BOOTBLOCK too.
Change-Id: Idc7cbd670ce4f75b7790ff8d95578683e355ba7e
Signed-off-by: Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/20810
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Tested-by: Raptor Engineering Automated Test Stand <noreply@raptorengineeringinc.com>
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Ron reported some toolchain emitting .sdata sections. Let's ensure
we catch objects in those sections instead of getting dropped on the
floor for architectures which emit those sections.
Change-Id: I0680228f8424f99611914ef5fc31adf5d3891eee
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/17180
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
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Implement postcar stage cbmem console support. The postcar stage
is more like ramstage in that RAM is already up. Therefore, in
order to make the cbmem console reinit flow work one needs the cbmem
init hook infrastructure in place and the cbmem recovery called.
This call is added to x86/postcar.c to achieve that. Additionally,
one needs to provide postcar stage cbmem init hook callbacks for
the cbmem console library to use. A few other places need to
become postcar stage aware so that the code paths are taken.
Lastly, since postcar is backed by ram indicate that to the
cbmem backing store.
BUG=chrome-os-partner:57513
Change-Id: I51db65d8502c456b08f291fd1b59f6ea72059dfd
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/16619
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
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This fixes compilation of coreboot on Glados
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
BRANCH=none
TEST=emerge-glados coreboot works again
BUG=none
Change-Id: Ibaae68192a3dc070c6ecf79223da4a1e1f18b352
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/346198
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@google.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@chromium.org>
(cherry picked from commit d7c2c72698e81b1410f9839c77be2e77b8ed83d6)
Signed-off-by: Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/14930
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@google.com>
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Remove the platform_bus_table routine and replace it with a link time
table. This allows the handlers to be spread across multiple modules
without any one module knowing about all of the handlers.
Establish number ranges for both the SOC and mainboard.
TEST=Build and run on Galileo Gen2
Change-Id: I0823d443d3352f31ba7fa20845bbf550b585c86f
Signed-off-by: Lee Leahy <leroy.p.leahy@intel.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/14554
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
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Some ld versions seem to merge the .zeroptr section (NOLOAD, address 0)
with some debug sections (NOLOAD, address 0) which makes the build
explode when the debug sections are then stripped (including the zeroptr
symbol).
Just define zeroptr to be 0, no sections needed, to avoid this
"optimization".
Checked the objdump -dS of code using it that the accesses look sane.
Change-Id: Ia7cb3e5eae87076caf479d5ae9155a02f74b5663
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/14344
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
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Certain chipsets don't have a memory-mapped boot media
so their code execution for stages prior to DRAM initialization
is backed by SRAM or cache-as-ram. The postcar stage/phase
handles the cache-as-ram situation where in order to tear down
cache-as-ram one needs to be executing out of a backing
store that isn't transient. By current definition, cache-as-ram
is volatile and tearing it down leads to its contents disappearing.
Therefore provide a shim layer, postcar, that's loaded into
memory and executed which does 2 things:
1. Tears down cache-as-ram with a chipset helper function.
2. Loads and runs ramstage.
Because those 2 things are executed out of ram there's no issue
of the code's backing store while executing the code that
tears down cache-as-ram. The current implementation makes no
assumption regarding cacheability of the DRAM itself. If the
chipset code wishes to cache DRAM for loading of the postcar
stage/phase then it's also up to the chipset to handle any
coherency issues pertaining to cache-as-ram destruction.
Change-Id: Ia58efdadd0b48f20cfe7de2f49ab462306c3a19b
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/14140
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>
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zeroptr is a linker object pointing at 0 that can be used to thwart
GCC's (and other compilers') "dereferencing NULL is undefined"
optimization strategy when it gets in the way.
Change-Id: I6aa6f28283281ebae73d6349811e290bf1b99483
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi-clan.de>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/12294
Tested-by: Raptor Engineering Automated Test Stand <noreply@raptorengineeringinc.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
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It encourages users from writing to the FSF without giving an address.
Linux also prefers to drop that and their checkpatch.pl (that we
imported) looks out for that.
This is the result of util/scripts/no-fsf-addresses.sh with no further
editing.
Change-Id: Ie96faea295fe001911d77dbc51e9a6789558fbd6
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/11888
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
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This fixes building with CONFIG_COVERAGE=y
Change-Id: I5128ae0ef0d4f71e3ede7bcb3ee7ed7e265d1bb7
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi-clan.de>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/11729
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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Currently coreboot expects the loader to clear the bss section
for all stages. i.e. stages don't clear their own bss. On ARM
SoCs the BootROM would be responsible for this. To do that
one needs to include the bss section data (all zeros) in the
bootblock.bin file. This was previously being attempted by
keeping the .bss info in the .data section because objcopy
happened zero out non-file allocated data section data.
Instead go back to linking bootblock with the bss section
but mark the bss section as loadable allocatable data. That
way it will be included in the binary properly when objcopy
-O binary is emplyed. Also do the same for the data section
in the case of no non-zero object values are in the data
section.
Without this change the trick of including .bss in .data
was not working when there wasn't a non-zero value object
in the data section.
BUG=None
BRANCH=None
TEST=Built emulation/qemu-armv7 and noted bootblock.bin contains
the cleared bss.
Change-Id: I94bd404c2c4a8b9332393e6224e98940a9cad4a2
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/11680
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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Patch b2a62622b (linking: move romstage and bootblock to use program.ld)
unified the linker scripts between different stages. Unfortunately it
omitted several special cases from the old bootblock.ld script that are
required for non-x86 environments.
This patch expands program.ld to once again merge the .BSS into the
program image for bootblocks (ensuring correct initialization by the
external loader). It also revives the .id section (which adds a
human-readable blurb of information to the top of an image) and fixes a
problem with unintended automated section alignment.
BRANCH=None
BUG=None
TEST=Jerry and Oak boot again.
Change-Id: I54271b8b59a9c773d858d676cde0218cb7f20e74
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@chromium.org>
Original-Commit-Id: 6fddbc00963e363039634fa31a9b66254b6cf18f
Original-Change-Id: I4d748056f1ab29a8e730f861879982bdf4c33eab
Original-Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/299413
Original-Tested-by: Yidi Lin <yidi.lin@mediatek.com>
Original-Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/11660
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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Previously there were 2 paths in linking ramstage. One was used for
RELOCATABLE_RAMSTAGE while the other was fixed location. Now that
rmodtool can handle multiple secitons for a single proram segment
there's no need for linking ramstage using lib/rmodule.ld. That
also means true rmodules don't have symbols required for ramstage
purposes so fix memlayout.h. Lastly add default rules for creating
rmod files from the known file names and locations.
BUG=chrome-os-partner:44827
BRANCH=None
TEST=Built rambi. Inspected ramstage.debug as well as rmodules
created during the build.
Change-Id: I98d249036c27cb4847512ab8bca5ea7b02ce04bd
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adubin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/11524
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Tested-by: Raptor Engineering Automated Test Stand <noreply@raptorengineeringinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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Bring rmodule linking into the common linking method.
The __rmodule_entry symbol was removed while using
a more common _start symbol. The rmodtool will honor
the entry point found within the ELF header. Add
ENV_RMODULE so that one can distinguish the environment
when generating linker scripts for rmodules. Lastly,
directly use program.ld for the rmodule.ld linker script.
BUG=chrome-os-partner:44827
BRANCH=None
TEST=Built rambi and analyzed the relocatable ramstage,
sipi_vector, and smm rmodules.
Change-Id: Iaa499eb229d8171272add9ee6d27cff75e7534ac
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adubin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/11517
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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All the other architectures are using the memlayout
for linking romstage. Use that same method on x86
as well for consistency.
BUG=chrome-os-partner:44827
BRANCH=None
TEST=Built a myriad of boards. Analyzed readelf output.
Change-Id: I016666c4b01410df112e588c2949e3fc64540c2e
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adubin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/11510
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Tested-by: Raptor Engineering Automated Test Stand <noreply@raptorengineeringinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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Though coreboot started as x86 only, the current approach to x86
linking is out of the norm with respect to other architectures.
To start alleviating that the way ramstage is linked is partially
unified. A new file, program.ld, was added to provide a common way
to link stages by deferring to per-stage architectural overrides.
The previous ramstage.ld is no longer required.
Note that this change doesn't handle RELOCATABLE_RAMSTAGE
because that is handled by rmodule.ld. Future convergence
can be achieved, but for the time being that's being left out.
BUG=chrome-os-partner:44827
BRANCH=None
TEST=Built a myriad of boards.
Change-Id: I5d689bfa7e0e9aff3a148178515ef241b5f70661
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adubin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/11507
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Tested-by: Raptor Engineering Automated Test Stand <noreply@raptorengineeringinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
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