Any way to do time keeping during kernel uncompression[ARM architecture]

[sandeep kumar]

Dear Abu
On our board we have a dedicated register to measure the ticks, right from
the "POWER key press".
This register is incremented 32567 times every second.

We directly read the register with physical address(MMU is not turned on
bootloader, during uncompress_kernel MMU& is on but still one on one
mapping) values to know the current timing from boot up.

I profiled at the places where zImage copying happens & decompress_kernel
functions(misc.c) & "restart:" label in head.S. and got the above results.

Regards
Sandeep.



On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Abu Rasheda <rcpilot2010 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:53 AM, sandeep kumar <coolsandyforyou at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear All
>> FYI:
>> I got the below data in my board...
>> For Zimage:
>> Copy from eMMC to RAM(bootloader) & other stuff in bootloader -- 200msec
>> Kernel relocation --- 1msec
>> Kernel uncompression -- 700msec
>> Total time taken --- 900msec approx
>>
>> For Image:
>> Copy from eMMC to RAM(bootloader) & other stuff in bootloader -- 1400msec
>>
>> So in case of Uncompressed kernel image.. even though it doesnt need
>> kernel uncompression, it is taking 500msec more in bootloader.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sandeep
>>
>
> How did you measure these times ?
>
>  On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Dave Hylands <dhylands at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sandeep
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:35 PM, sandeep kumar <
>>> coolsandyforyou at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi Dave.
>>> > Ok
>>> > Can you tell me which thing runs faster ?
>>> > 1)Copy zImage(compressed kernel) from flash to Ram, jump to start,
>>> Relocate compress kernel, uncompress it...
>>> > 2)Copy Image(uncompressed one) from flash to RAM and run it right
>>> away...
>>> >
>>> > My gut feeling says second one is better, thats what i m trying to
>>> prove here... :)
>>>
>>> It depends on numerous factors:
>>> 1 - Your flash speed
>>> 2 - Your RAM speed
>>> 3 - Your CPU speed
>>> 4 - Whether you have code and/or data caches enabled
>>>
>>> If you enable the caches, use DMA from NAND (so make your NAND as fast
>>> as possible), then option 1 usually blows away option 2, but your mileage
>>> may vary.
>>>
>>> Dave Hylands
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> With regards,
>> Sandeep Kumar Anantapalli,
>>
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With regards,
Sandeep Kumar Anantapalli,
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