[PATCH 1/4] riscv: spl: Introduce SPL_OPENSBI_OS_BOOT

Rick Chen rickchen36 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 08:49:10 CET 2022


> On 12/7/22 01:23, Rick Chen wrote:
> > In RISC-V, it only provide normal mode booting currently.
> > To speed up the booting process, here provide SPL_OPENSBI_OS_BOOT
> > to achieve this feature which will be call Fast-Boot mode. By
>
> Can you name this something different. We already have something called
> fastboot in-tree (the Android-derived protocol) and there's a Microsoft
> technology called fastboot (some kind of hibernation). "OS Boot" isn't
> very specific either, since we (almost always) boot an OS. Maybe "Eagle
> mode" by analogy to Falcon mode, which lets SPL directly boot an OS.

I think fast boot is a behavior which shall be interpreted widely but
not proprietary.
Or maybe I can  rename it as RISC-V Fast Boot to distinguish them.

>
> (Is this substantially different from falcon mode anyway?)

Please see the explanations to Tom.

>
> > enabling SPL_OPENSBI_OS_BOOT, it will generate linux.itb instead
> > of default u-boot.itb after compiling. It initializes memory with
> > the U-Boot SPL at the first stage, just like what a regular booting
> > process (i.e. Normal Boot) does in the beginning. Instead of jumping
> > to the U-Boot proper from OpenSBI before booting Linux Kernel, the
> > Fast Boot process jumps directly to Linux Kernel to gain shorter
> > booting time.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rick Chen <rick at andestech.com>
> > ---
> >   common/spl/Kconfig       | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >   common/spl/spl_fit.c     |  3 ++-
> >   common/spl/spl_opensbi.c | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
> >   3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/common/spl/Kconfig b/common/spl/Kconfig
> > index 05181bdba3..8805aba1b7 100644
> > --- a/common/spl/Kconfig
> > +++ b/common/spl/Kconfig
> > @@ -1509,6 +1509,20 @@ config SPL_OPENSBI_SCRATCH_OPTIONS
> >         Options passed to fw_dynamic, for example SBI_SCRATCH_NO_BOOT_PRINTS or
> >         SBI_SCRATCH_DEBUG_PRINTS.
> >
> > +config SPL_OPENSBI_OS_BOOT
>
> Please use the same name for the config as for the description.
>
> > +     bool "openSBI Fast Boot"
> > +     depends on SPL_OPENSBI
> > +     help
> > +       Enable this openSBI can jump to Linux Kernel directly.
>
> Can you put some of the explanation from the commit message here?

OK, I will move some messages here from commit messages.

>
> > +
> > +config SPL_OPENSBI_FIT_NAME
> > +     string "SPL openSBI fit image name"
> > +     depends on SPL_OPENSBI
> > +     default "linux.itb" if SPL_OPENSBI_OS_BOOT
> > +     default "u-boot.itb"
> > +     help
> > +       This will help to generate different fit name accordingly.
>
> Why not SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME?
>
> It looks like the code changes below do not use these configs. Can you
> move them to the next patch so it is clearer that they are for binman?

I have saw this config, but it does't support SPL_RAM but only for filesystem
That is why I don't leverage it.

I can prepare a patch as below if no other concerns:

config SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
string "File to load for U-Boot from the filesystem"
depends on SPL_FS_EXT4 || SPL_FS_FAT || SPL_FS_SQUASHFS || SPL_RAM
default "tispl.bin" if SYS_K3_SPL_ATF
default "u-boot.itb" if SPL_LOAD_FIT
default "linux.itb" if SPL_OPENSBI_OS_BOOT
default "u-boot.img"
help
  Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem.

Thanks,
Rick

>
> --Sean
>
> >   config SPL_TARGET
> >       string "Addtional build targets for 'make'"
> >       default "spl/u-boot-spl.srec" if RCAR_GEN2
> > diff --git a/common/spl/spl_fit.c b/common/spl/spl_fit.c
> > index c1ed31e367..c5b1dfb3ba 100644
> > --- a/common/spl/spl_fit.c
> > +++ b/common/spl/spl_fit.c
> > @@ -363,7 +363,8 @@ static bool os_takes_devicetree(uint8_t os)
> >       case IH_OS_U_BOOT:
> >               return true;
> >       case IH_OS_LINUX:
> > -             return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT);
> > +             return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT) ||
> > +                     IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPL_OPENSBI_OS_BOOT);
> >       default:
> >               return false;
> >       }
> > diff --git a/common/spl/spl_opensbi.c b/common/spl/spl_opensbi.c
> > index b0f40076c3..83869c6b18 100644
> > --- a/common/spl/spl_opensbi.c
> > +++ b/common/spl/spl_opensbi.c
> > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
> >
> >   struct fw_dynamic_info opensbi_info;
> >
> > -static int spl_opensbi_find_uboot_node(void *blob, int *uboot_node)
> > +static int spl_opensbi_find_os_node(void *blob, int *os_node)
> >   {
> >       int fit_images_node, node;
> >       const char *fit_os;
> > @@ -34,10 +34,9 @@ static int spl_opensbi_find_uboot_node(void *blob, int *uboot_node)
> >               if (!fit_os)
> >                       continue;
> >
> > -             if (genimg_get_os_id(fit_os) == IH_OS_U_BOOT) {
> > -                     *uboot_node = node;
> > -                     return 0;
> > -             }
> > +             *os_node = node;
> > +
> > +             return 0;
> >       }
> >
> >       return -ENODEV;
> > @@ -45,8 +44,8 @@ static int spl_opensbi_find_uboot_node(void *blob, int *uboot_node)
> >
> >   void spl_invoke_opensbi(struct spl_image_info *spl_image)
> >   {
> > -     int ret, uboot_node;
> > -     ulong uboot_entry;
> > +     int ret, os_node;
> > +     ulong os_entry;
> >       void (*opensbi_entry)(ulong hartid, ulong dtb, ulong info);
> >
> >       if (!spl_image->fdt_addr) {
> > @@ -54,22 +53,22 @@ void spl_invoke_opensbi(struct spl_image_info *spl_image)
> >               hang();
> >       }
> >
> > -     /* Find U-Boot image in /fit-images */
> > -     ret = spl_opensbi_find_uboot_node(spl_image->fdt_addr, &uboot_node);
> > +     /* Find U-Boot or Linux image in /fit-images */
> > +     ret = spl_opensbi_find_os_node(spl_image->fdt_addr, &os_node);
> >       if (ret) {
> >               pr_err("Can't find U-Boot node, %d\n", ret);
> >               hang();
> >       }
> >
> > -     /* Get U-Boot entry point */
> > -     ret = fit_image_get_entry(spl_image->fdt_addr, uboot_node, &uboot_entry);
> > +     /* Get os entry point */
> > +     ret = fit_image_get_entry(spl_image->fdt_addr, os_node, &os_entry);
> >       if (ret)
> > -             ret = fit_image_get_load(spl_image->fdt_addr, uboot_node, &uboot_entry);
> > +             ret = fit_image_get_load(spl_image->fdt_addr, os_node, &os_entry);
> >
> >       /* Prepare opensbi_info object */
> >       opensbi_info.magic = FW_DYNAMIC_INFO_MAGIC_VALUE;
> >       opensbi_info.version = FW_DYNAMIC_INFO_VERSION;
> > -     opensbi_info.next_addr = uboot_entry;
> > +     opensbi_info.next_addr = os_entry;
> >       opensbi_info.next_mode = FW_DYNAMIC_INFO_NEXT_MODE_S;
> >       opensbi_info.options = CONFIG_SPL_OPENSBI_SCRATCH_OPTIONS;
> >       opensbi_info.boot_hart = gd->arch.boot_hart;
>


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