[PATCH] cmd: mtd: Enable speed benchmarking

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Thu Jul 3 18:58:41 CEST 2025


Linux features a flash_speed speed test from the mtd-utils suite, U-Boot
does not. Benchmarks are useful for speed improvement developments as
well as troubleshooting or regression testing sometimes.

Enable a benchmark option to enable this feature.

Example of output on a Nuvoton platform:

MA35D1> mtd read nor0 0x81000000 0 0x10000
Reading 65536 byte(s) at offset 0x00000000
MA35D1> mtd read.benchmark nor0 0x81000000 0 0x10000
Reading 65536 byte(s) at offset 0x00000000
Read speed: 3752kiB/s

Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
---
 cmd/mtd.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cmd/mtd.c b/cmd/mtd.c
index c25997cfb246..d5843db663d7 100644
--- a/cmd/mtd.c
+++ b/cmd/mtd.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <malloc.h>
 #include <mapmem.h>
 #include <mtd.h>
+#include <time.h>
 #include <dm/devres.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 
@@ -466,10 +467,11 @@ static int mtd_special_write_oob(struct mtd_info *mtd, u64 off,
 static int do_mtd_io(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
 		     char *const argv[])
 {
-	bool dump, read, raw, woob, write_empty_pages, has_pages = false;
+	bool dump, read, raw, woob, benchmark, write_empty_pages, has_pages = false;
 	u64 start_off, off, len, remaining, default_len;
 	struct mtd_oob_ops io_op = {};
 	uint user_addr = 0, npages;
+	u32 bench_start, bench_end;
 	const char *cmd = argv[0];
 	struct mtd_info *mtd;
 	u32 oob_len;
@@ -490,6 +492,7 @@ static int do_mtd_io(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
 	read = dump || !strncmp(cmd, "read", 4);
 	raw = strstr(cmd, ".raw");
 	woob = strstr(cmd, ".oob");
+	benchmark = strstr(cmd, ".benchmark");
 	write_empty_pages = !has_pages || strstr(cmd, ".dontskipff");
 
 	argc -= 2;
@@ -559,6 +562,9 @@ static int do_mtd_io(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
 
 	led_activity_blink();
 
+	if (benchmark)
+		bench_start = timer_get_us();
+
 	/* Loop over the pages to do the actual read/write */
 	while (remaining) {
 		/* Skip the block if it is bad */
@@ -586,6 +592,13 @@ static int do_mtd_io(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
 		io_op.oobbuf += io_op.oobretlen;
 	}
 
+	if (benchmark && bench_start) {
+		bench_end = timer_get_us();
+		printf("%s speed: %lukiB/s\n",
+		       read ? "Read" : "Write",
+		       ((io_op.len * 1000000) / (bench_end - bench_start)) / 1024);
+	}
+
 	led_activity_off();
 
 	if (!ret && dump)
-- 
2.49.0



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