[U-Boot] SPL DM

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Feb 4 01:33:00 CET 2015


Hi Michal,

On 3 February 2015 at 08:46, Michal Simek <monstr at monstr.eu> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On 02/03/2015 03:11 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Hi Michal,
>>
>> On 3 February 2015 at 06:16, Michal Simek <monstr at monstr.eu> wrote:
>>> Hi Simon,
>>>
>>> I am playing with driver model and I have moved uartlite to it and
>>> it is working fine for normal u-boot +10k but SPL size is dramatically
>>> bigger. Without DM I can fit to 3k but now it has ~16k.
>>>
>>> microblaze-generic:  all +10759  bss +4  data +560  rodata +1379
>>> spl/u-boot-spl:all +9100  spl/u-boot-spl:bss -4  spl/u-boot-spl:data -48
>>>  spl/u-boot-spl:rodata +5660  spl/u-boot-spl:text +3492  text +8816
>>>
>>> This 9k is after removing all printf calling which is adding 6kB.
>>>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/common/malloc_simple.c b/common/malloc_simple.c
>>> index afdacff80d8e..a9e4d96738a0 100644
>>> --- a/common/malloc_simple.c
>>> +++ b/common/malloc_simple.c
>>> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ void *malloc_simple(size_t bytes)
>>>
>>>         new_ptr = gd->malloc_ptr + bytes;
>>>         if (new_ptr > gd->malloc_limit)
>>> -               panic("Out of pre-reloc memory");
>>> +               puts("Out of pre-reloc memory");
>>>         ptr = map_sysmem(gd->malloc_base + gd->malloc_ptr, bytes);
>>>         gd->malloc_ptr = ALIGN(new_ptr, sizeof(new_ptr));
>>>         return ptr;
>>> diff --git a/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c b/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
>>> index 3fc7104359d3..d56fafcb8ee2 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
>>> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static void serial_find_console_or_panic(void)
>>>         if (uclass_get_device_by_seq(UCLASS_SERIAL, INDEX, &dev) &&
>>>             uclass_get_device(UCLASS_SERIAL, INDEX, &dev) &&
>>>             (uclass_first_device(UCLASS_SERIAL, &dev) || !dev))
>>> -               panic("No serial driver found");
>>> +               puts("No serial driver found");
>>>  #undef INDEX
>>>         gd->cur_serial_dev = dev;
>>>  }
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is diff between versions. I have setup CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
>>> Simon: Have you tried to to reduce size in this too?
>>> Interesting part is that new uartlite functions are not called that's why I am expecting
>>> any other problem.
>>>
>>>                  spl-u-boot-spl: add: 27/-13, grow: 2/-1 bytes: 4024/-576 (3448)
>>>                  function                                   old     new   delta
>>>                  device_bind                                  -     596    +596
>>>                  device_probe_child                           -     508    +508
>>>                  uclass_get                                   -     296    +296
>>>                  lists_bind_drivers                           -     212    +212
>>>                  uclass_resolve_seq                           -     188    +188
>>>                  uclass_bind_device                           -     180    +180
>>>                  uclass_find_device_by_seq                    -     172    +172
>>>                  device_bind_by_name                          -     152    +152
>>>                  uclass_get_device_by_seq                     -     140    +140
>>>                  serial_find_console_or_panic                 -     136    +136
>>>                  uclass_find_device                           -     132    +132
>>>                  lists_driver_lookup_name                     -     128    +128
>>>                  uclass_first_device                          -     108    +108
>>>                  dm_init                                      -      96     +96
>>>                  _serial_putc                                 -      96     +96
>>>                  uclass_unbind_device                         -      92     +92
>>>                  malloc_simple                                -      92     +92
>>>                  uclass_get_device                            -      88     +88
>>>                  lists_uclass_lookup                          -      80     +80
>>>                  dm_init_and_scan                             -      80     +80
>>>                  calloc                                       -      80     +80
>>>                  uclass_find                                  -      72     +72
>>>                  uclass_pre_probe_child                       -      60     +60
>>>                  uclass_post_probe_device                     -      52     +52
>>>                  strcmp                                       -      52     +52
>>>                  dm_scan_platdata                             -      52     +52
>>>                  serial_puts                                 44      80     +36
>>>                  device_probe                                 -      32     +32
>>>                  board_init_r                               232     248     +16
>>>                  serial_current                               4       -      -4
>>>                  userial0_setbrg                              8       -      -8
>>>                  serial_init                                 56      48      -8
>>>                  userial0_tstc                               20       -     -20
>>>                  userial0_puts                               32       -     -32
>>>                  userial0_putc                               32       -     -32
>>>                  userial0_init                               32       -     -32
>>>                  userial0_getc                               32       -     -32
>>>                  uartlite_serial_getc                        40       -     -40
>>>                  uartlite_serial0_device                     48       -     -48
>>>                  uartlite_serial_init                        52       -     -52
>>>                  uartlite_serial_puts                        80       -     -80
>>>                  uartlite_serial_putc                        92       -     -92
>>>                  get_current                                 96       -     -96
>>
>> I took a look at this quite recently and your numbers (4KB) are
>> similar to mine - for ARM. I suppose. Actually on Tegra I see 5KB but
>> I think that is due to GPIOs being used too. I expect Thumb will cut
>> this by 20% or so.
>>
>> There is also a bug in gcc which causes the rodata to blow up. You
>> might be seeing that also.
>>
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54303
>>
>> I just got a response with a possible patch on the gcc mailing list.
>
> I don't think this is a problem on microblaze - or at least can't see
> any problem related to that.

OK good.

>
>
> I put SPL to DDR and it is loading image from NOR flash and it is working
> with DM enabled.
>
> U-Boot SPL 2015.04-rc1-00030-g705afe6b99a2 (Feb 03 2015 - 15:48:09)
>
>
> U-Boot 2015.04-rc1-00030-g705afe6b99a2 (Feb 03 2015 - 15:48:09)
>
> DRAM:  128 MiB
> Flash: 32 MiB
> *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
>
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> Net:   Xelite.40e00000
> U-BOOT for Xilinx-SP605-AXI-lite-14.7
>
> U-Boot-mONStR>
> U-Boot-mONStR>
>
> I have done some changes in SPL to support DM
>
>
>> So this is very much work-in-progress. I see a few options:
>>
>> 1. Reduce functionality further, like the existing
>> CONFIG_DM_WARN/DEVICE_REMOVE/STDIO but operating on things like
>> device_bind/probe(). I have not seriously looked at this but I suspect
>> it would be painful.
>
> DM_WARN is printf at the end - that's why disable it. DEVICE_REMOVE
> is disable for me - don't want to remove devices.
>
> STDIO is disabled for SPL too.

Yes these are the default.

>
>>
>> 2. Support for static binding, i.e. declare a struct udevice directly,
>> using const static init and perhaps some sort of macro to help thread
>> tings together. Then we could add CONFIG_DM_BIND (to support binding
>> new devices) and disable it for SPL. A bit ick but it might get us
>> closer to running in a 4KB SRAM.
>>
>> If you have ideas/patches please send them through. Right now I need
>> to get Kconfig support v2 landed, and we still need a few more gdata
>> patches before we can enable DM in SPL anyway (Tom is looking at
>> that).
>
> The whole DM code is new for me but I will see what I can do with it.
> Definitely any example will be more then helpful

Well first start with an objective (i.e. what you want the side to be!).

See u-boot-dm/spl-working for current tegra approach.

>
> This is stat for the current version.
>
>
>                spl-u-boot-spl: add: 39/-11, grow: 4/-1 bytes: 4668/-444 (4224)
>                  function                                   old     new   delta
>                  device_bind                                  -     596    +596
>                  device_probe_child                           -     508    +508
>                  uclass_get                                   -     296    +296
>                  lists_bind_drivers                           -     212    +212
>                  uclass_resolve_seq                           -     188    +188
>                  uclass_bind_device                           -     180    +180
>                  uclass_find_device_by_seq                    -     172    +172
>                  device_bind_by_name                          -     152    +152
>                  uclass_get_device_by_seq                     -     140    +140
>                  serial_find_console_or_panic                 -     136    +136
>                  uclass_find_device                           -     132    +132
>                  lists_driver_lookup_name                     -     128    +128
>                  memset                                       -     124    +124
>                  uclass_first_device                          -     108    +108
>                  dm_init                                      -      96     +96
>                  _serial_putc                                 -      96     +96
>                  uclass_unbind_device                         -      92     +92
>                  malloc_simple                                -      92     +92
>                  uclass_get_device                            -      88     +88
>                  lists_uclass_lookup                          -      80     +80
>                  dm_init_and_scan                             -      80     +80
>                  calloc                                       -      80     +80
>                  uclass_find                                  -      72     +72
>                  uartlite_serial_probe                        -      68     +68
>                  _u_boot_list_2_driver_2_uartlite_serial       -      68     +68
>                  _u_boot_list_2_driver_2_root_driver          -      68     +68
>                  uartlite_serial_tstc                         -      64     +64
>                  _u_boot_list_2_uclass_2_serial               -      64     +64
>                  _u_boot_list_2_uclass_2_root                 -      64     +64
>                  uclass_pre_probe_child                       -      60     +60
>                  serial_post_probe                            -      56     +56
>                  uclass_post_probe_device                     -      52     +52
>                  strcmp                                       -      52     +52
>                  dm_scan_platdata                             -      52     +52
>                  serial_puts                                 44      80     +36
>                  device_probe                                 -      32     +32
>                  dev_get_platdata                             -      20     +20
>                  uartlite_serial_getc                        40      56     +16
>                  board_init_r                               216     232     +16
>                  uartlite_serial_putc                        92     104     +12
>                  serial_pre_remove                            -       8      +8
>                  _u_boot_list_2_driver_info_2_uartlite0       -       8      +8
>                  plat_uartlite_0                              -       4      +4
>                  serial_current                               4       -      -4
>                  userial0_setbrg                              8       -      -8
>                  serial_init                                 56      48      -8
>                  userial0_tstc                               20       -     -20
>                  userial0_puts                               32       -     -32
>                  userial0_putc                               32       -     -32
>                  userial0_init                               32       -     -32
>                  userial0_getc                               32       -     -32
>                  uartlite_serial0_device                     48       -     -48
>                  uartlite_serial_init                        52       -     -52
>                  uartlite_serial_puts                        80       -     -80
>                  get_current                                 96       -     -96

Regards,
Simon


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