arm: relocation: clear .bss section with arch memset if defined

For ARM architecture, enable the CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET/MEMCPY,
will highly increase the memset/memcpy performance. This is able
thanks to the ARM multiple register instructions.

Unfortunatelly the relocation is done without the cache enabled,
so it takes some time, but zeroing the BSS memory takes much more
longer, especially for the configs with big static buffers.

A quick test confirms, that the boot time improvement after using
the arch memcpy for relocation has no significant meaning.
The same test confirms that enable the memset for zeroing BSS,
reduces the boot time.

So this patch enables the arch memset for zeroing the BSS after
the relocation process. For ARM boards, this can be enabled
in board configs by defining: 'CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET'.

This was tested on Trats2.
A quick test with trace. Boot time from start to main_loop() entry:
- ~1384ms - before this change
-  ~888ms - after this change

Signed-off-by: Przemyslaw Marczak <p.marczak@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S b/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
index 6e04e67a272efbeb89265172465706ffff84dde6..a3aa2cd654915bc4b453f8d575a41f814966d60c 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
@@ -122,14 +122,22 @@ here:
        movne   sp, r0
 # endif
        ldr     r0, =__bss_start        /* this is auto-relocated! */
-       ldr     r1, =__bss_end          /* this is auto-relocated! */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
+       ldr     r3, =__bss_end          /* this is auto-relocated! */
+       mov     r1, #0x00000000         /* prepare zero to clear BSS */
+
+       subs    r2, r3, r0              /* r2 = memset len */
+       bl      memset
+#else
+       ldr     r1, =__bss_end          /* this is auto-relocated! */
        mov     r2, #0x00000000         /* prepare zero to clear BSS */
 
 clbss_l:cmp    r0, r1                  /* while not at end of BSS */
        strlo   r2, [r0]                /* clear 32-bit BSS word */
        addlo   r0, r0, #4              /* move to next */
        blo     clbss_l
+#endif
 
 #if ! defined(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD)
        bl coloured_LED_init