console: Fix pre-console flushing via cfb_console being very slow

On my A10 OlinuxIno Lime I noticed a huge (5+ seconds) delay coming from
console_init_r. This turns out to be caused by the preconsole buffer flushing
to the cfb_console. The Lime only has a 16 bit memory bus and that is already
heavy used to scan out the 1920x1080 framebuffer.

The problem is that print_pre_console_buffer() was printing the buffer once
character at a time and the cfb_console code then ends up doing a cache-flush
for touched display lines for each character.

This commit fixes this by first building a 0 terminated buffer and then
printing it in one puts() call, avoiding unnecessary cache flushes.

This changes the time for the flush from 5+ seconds to not noticable.

The downside of this approach is that the pre-console buffer needs to fit
on the stack, this is not that much to ask since we are talking about plain
text here. This commit also adjusts the sunxi CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ to
actually fit on the stack. Sunxi currently is the only user of the pre-console
code so no other boards need to be adjusted.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

diff --git a/README b/README
index 1ea397a35cadd7efcb7008e815ea13074320794c..2e81ccc37c782d65aee6e82283d76bff44515d13 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -948,6 +948,9 @@ The following options need to be configured:
                bytes are output before the console is initialised, the
                earlier bytes are discarded.
 
+               Note that when printing the buffer a copy is made on the
+               stack so CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ must fit on the stack.
+
                'Sane' compilers will generate smaller code if
                CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ is a power of 2
 

diff --git a/common/console.c b/common/console.c
index 3f25e76fe79ea3c94a85d0306d668233320e2d47..00582224d463272b43647af31f8dcba519b2c61c 100644 (file)
--- a/common/console.c
+++ b/common/console.c
@@ -200,15 +200,15 @@ static void console_putc(int file, const char c)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PRE_CONSOLE_BUFFER
-static void console_putc_noserial(int file, const char c)
+static void console_puts_noserial(int file, const char *s)
 {
        int i;
        struct stdio_dev *dev;
 
        for (i = 0; i < cd_count[file]; i++) {
                dev = console_devices[file][i];
-               if (dev->putc != NULL && strcmp(dev->name, "serial") != 0)
-                       dev->putc(dev, c);
+               if (dev->puts != NULL && strcmp(dev->name, "serial") != 0)
+                       dev->puts(dev, s);
        }
 }
 #endif
@@ -251,10 +251,10 @@ static inline void console_putc(int file, const char c)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PRE_CONSOLE_BUFFER
-static inline void console_putc_noserial(int file, const char c)
+static inline void console_puts_noserial(int file, const char *s)
 {
        if (strcmp(stdio_devices[file]->name, "serial") != 0)
-               stdio_devices[file]->putc(stdio_devices[file], c);
+               stdio_devices[file]->puts(stdio_devices[file], s);
 }
 #endif
 
@@ -425,22 +425,26 @@ static void pre_console_puts(const char *s)
 
 static void print_pre_console_buffer(int flushpoint)
 {
-       unsigned long i = 0;
-       char *buffer = (char *)CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR;
+       unsigned long in = 0, out = 0;
+       char *buf_in = (char *)CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR;
+       char buf_out[CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ + 1];
 
        if (gd->precon_buf_idx > CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ)
-               i = gd->precon_buf_idx - CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ;
+               in = gd->precon_buf_idx - CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ;
 
-       while (i < gd->precon_buf_idx)
-               switch (flushpoint) {
-               case PRE_CONSOLE_FLUSHPOINT1_SERIAL:
-                       putc(buffer[CIRC_BUF_IDX(i++)]);
-                       break;
-               case PRE_CONSOLE_FLUSHPOINT2_EVERYTHING_BUT_SERIAL:
-                       console_putc_noserial(stdout,
-                                             buffer[CIRC_BUF_IDX(i++)]);
-                       break;
-               }
+       while (in < gd->precon_buf_idx)
+               buf_out[out++] = buf_in[CIRC_BUF_IDX(in++)];
+
+       buf_out[out] = 0;
+
+       switch (flushpoint) {
+       case PRE_CONSOLE_FLUSHPOINT1_SERIAL:
+               puts(buf_out);
+               break;
+       case PRE_CONSOLE_FLUSHPOINT2_EVERYTHING_BUT_SERIAL:
+               console_puts_noserial(stdout, buf_out);
+               break;
+       }
 }
 #else
 static inline void pre_console_putc(const char c) {}

diff --git a/include/configs/sunxi-common.h b/include/configs/sunxi-common.h
index 723067ea748e384b3a3c28face290ae563aec18b..0495dc3b8c1ea929a76963edc86242bf0697be20 100644 (file)
--- a/include/configs/sunxi-common.h
+++ b/include/configs/sunxi-common.h
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ extern int soft_i2c_gpio_scl;
 
 /* Enable pre-console buffer to get complete log on the VGA console */
 #define CONFIG_PRE_CONSOLE_BUFFER
-#define CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ          (1024 * 1024)
+#define CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ          4096 /* Aprox 2 80*25 screens */
 /* Use the room between the end of bootm_size and the framebuffer */
 #define CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR                0x4f000000