u-boot/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
Rasmus Villemoes 729c1fe656 powerpc: introduce CONFIG_CACHE_FLUSH_WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD
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>
2021-04-27 08:28:07 +02:00

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menu "PowerPC architecture"
depends on PPC
config SYS_ARCH
default "powerpc"
choice
prompt "CPU select"
optional
config MPC83xx
bool "MPC83xx"
select CREATE_ARCH_SYMLINK
select SYS_FSL_HAS_SEC
select SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
select SYS_FSL_SEC_COMPAT_2
config MPC85xx
bool "MPC85xx"
select CREATE_ARCH_SYMLINK
select SYS_FSL_DDR
select SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
select BINMAN if OF_SEPARATE
imply CMD_HASH
imply CMD_IRQ
imply USB_EHCI_HCD if USB
config MPC86xx
bool "MPC86xx"
select SYS_FSL_DDR
select SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
imply CMD_REGINFO
config MPC8xx
bool "MPC8xx"
select BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F
imply CMD_REGINFO
imply WDT_MPC8xx
endchoice
config HIGH_BATS
bool "Enable high BAT registers"
help
Enable BATs (block address translation registers) 4-7 on machines
that support them.
source "arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/Kconfig"
source "arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/Kconfig"
source "arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/Kconfig"
source "arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/Kconfig"
source "arch/powerpc/lib/Kconfig"
endmenu