SDVX-TN-001: Fast boot time

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History[edit | edit source]

Version Date Notes
1.0.0 October 2018 First public release

Introduction[edit | edit source]

When using Linux embedded platforms, boot time is an important performance to take into account. Many indication or examples can be found on Internet but when a real case where real industrial platform is used, those techniques cannot be easily adopted.

This Technical Note describes howto reduces the boot time using the main general purpose indications and a well designed board architecture, like DAVE's SDV03 platform are used.

Testbed[edit | edit source]

As stated in the introduction, the solution has been tested on a DAVE's Embedded platform: here below the main characteristics

  • Board: SDV03 equipped with AxelLite SOM
  • SOC: NXP i.MX6 DualLite
  • Flash storage: eMMC
  • U-boot: 2016.03
  • Linux Version: 4.1.15 ( BSP).

To verify the boot time achieved, a serial port terminal with timestamping capabilities has been used, like Teraterm

Serial terminal configuration[edit | edit source]

Select form Teraterm the menu: File / Log...

Teraterm-log-menu.png

Select the filename for the log file and enable the timestamp

Teraterm-log-timestamp.png

Boot time measure[edit | edit source]

The serial terminal collects all the string from u-boot and linux kernel: at the beginning of each raw the related timestamp is printend before the message 

[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.038 2018] 
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.038 2018] U-Boot 2016.03-sdvx-1.0.1 (Oct 03 2018 - 23:08:31 +0200), Build: jenkins-SDVX_U-Boot-5
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.038 2018] 
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.038 2018] CPU:   Freescale i.MX6DL rev1.3 at 792MHz
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.038 2018] CPU:   Industrial temperature grade (-40C to 105C) at 50C
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.038 2018] Reset cause: POR
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.038 2018] Environment: MMC
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.038 2018] I2C:   ready
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.038 2018] DRAM:  1 GiB
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.038 2018] Relocating to 4ff0c000, new gd at 4df09eb8, sp at 4df09e90
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.114 2018] PMIC:  PFUZE100 ID=0x10
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.131 2018] NAND:  Board NAND skip
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.131 2018] MMC:   WARNING: CB ConfigID on block 0 is UNLOCKED
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.209 2018] FSL_SDHC: 0, FSL_SDHC: 1, FSL_SDHC: 2
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.334 2018] Display: LDB-AM-800480STMQW-TA1-SDV03 (800x480)
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.383 2018] reading splash_image.bmp
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.447 2018] 1152054 bytes read in 59 ms (18.6 MiB/s)
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.669 2018] In:    serial
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.704 2018] Out:   serial
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.704 2018] Err:   serial
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.704 2018] SOM ConfigID#: 00000001
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.704 2018] SOM UniqueID#: e317d7c9:1a0151d4
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.704 2018] CB ConfigID#: 0000002a
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.704 2018] CB UniqueID#: b100001a:baed182d
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.704 2018] Board: MX6DL-AxelLite on SDV03
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.858 2018] switch to partitions #0, OK
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.858 2018] mmc2(part 0) is current device (eMMC)
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.858 2018] flash target is MMC:2
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.858 2018] Bad partition index:5 for partition:system
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.858 2018] Bad partition index:4 for partition:data
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:30.858 2018] Net:   FEC [PRIME]
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.369 2018] Warning: FEC (eth0) using random MAC address - de:b6:b3:f6:69:b5
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.403 2018] 
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.403 2018] Normal Boot
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.403 2018] Hit ENTER within 0 seconds to stop autoboot
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.403 2018] reading sdvx-1.0.1_lite_uImage
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.642 2018] 6695408 bytes read in 245 ms (26.1 MiB/s)
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.661 2018] reading imx6dl-sdv03-cb002a.dtb
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.724 2018] 43187 bytes read in 20 ms (2.1 MiB/s)
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.724 2018] FDT: override 'som_uniqueid' with 'e317d7c9:1a0151d4'
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.724 2018] FDT: override 'cb_uniqueid' with 'b100001a:baed182d'
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.724 2018] ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 12000000 ...
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.724 2018]    Image Name:   Linux-4.1.15-sdvx-1.0.1
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.725 2018]    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.725 2018]    Data Size:    6695344 Bytes = 6.4 MiB
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.725 2018]    Load Address: 10008000
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.725 2018]    Entry Point:  10008000
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.725 2018] ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 18000000
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.725 2018]    Booting using the fdt blob at 0x18000000
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.725 2018]    Loading Kernel Image ... OK
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.756 2018]    reserving fdt memory region: addr=18000000 size=b000
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.756 2018]    Using Device Tree in place at 18000000, end 1800dfff
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:31.783 2018] switch to ldo_bypass mode!
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:33.214 2018] Frame buffer: configure splashscreen reserved memory to 0x4e000000 (2 MiB)
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:33.214 2018] WARNING: could not find 2nd splashscreen reserved memory path
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:33.214 2018] 
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:33.214 2018] Starting kernel ...
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:33.214 2018] 
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:34.694 2018] [    1.086794] snvs-secvio 20cc000.caam-snvs: can't get snvs clock
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:34.819 2018] INIT: version 2.88 booting
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:35.140 2018] Starting udev
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.105 2018] ALSA: Restoring mixer settings...
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.249 2018] INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.279 2018] Configuring network interfaces... done.
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.550 2018] Starting Dropbear SSH server: dropbear.
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.598 2018] Starting rpcbind daemon...done.
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.678 2018] Starting crond: OK
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.712 2018] Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local).
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.742 2018] Starting tcf-agent: OK
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.945 2018] 
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.945 2018] Freescale i.MX Release Distro 4.1.15-2.0.1 sdv03-lite /dev/ttymxc2
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.945 2018] 
[Thu Oct 04 15:22:37.945 2018] sdv03-lite login:

Results[edit | edit source]

  • u-boot starts at
15:22:30.038
  • linux kernel starts 3 s from the boot
15:22:33.214
  • INIT: runlevel 5 is executed after 7s from the boot
15:22:37.249

and finally the login: is processed after less then 8 s from the boot

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