cbfs: Add LZ4 in-place decompression support for pre-RAM stages

This patch ports the LZ4 decompression code that debuted in libpayload
last year to coreboot for use in CBFS stages (upgrading the base
algorithm to LZ4's dev branch to access the new in-place decompression
checks). This is especially useful for pre-RAM stages in constrained
SRAM-based systems, which previously could not be compressed due to
the size requirements of the LZMA scratchpad and bounce buffer. The
LZ4 algorithm offers a very lean decompressor function and in-place
decompression support to achieve roughly the same boot speed gains
(trading compression ratio for decompression time) with nearly no
memory overhead.

For now we only activate it for the stages that had previously not been
compressed at all on non-XIP (read: non-x86) boards. In the future we
may also consider replacing LZMA completely for certain boards, since
which algorithm wins out on boot speed depends on board-specific
parameters (architecture, processor speed, SPI transfer rate, etc.).

BRANCH=None
BUG=None
TEST=Built and booted Oak, Jerry, Nyan and Falco. Measured boot time on
Oak to be about ~20ms faster (cutting load times for affected stages
almost in half).

Change-Id: Iec256c0e6d585d1b69985461939884a54e3ab900
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/13638
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/util/cbfstool/common.h b/util/cbfstool/common.h
index 42ae1e2b3d..ea6f3cf06c 100644
--- a/util/cbfstool/common.h
+++ b/util/cbfstool/common.h
@@ -165,7 +165,11 @@ typedef int (*comp_func_ptr) (char *in, int in_len, char *out, int *out_len);
 typedef int (*decomp_func_ptr) (char *in, int in_len, char *out, int out_len,
 				size_t *actual_size);
 
-enum comp_algo { CBFS_COMPRESS_NONE = 0, CBFS_COMPRESS_LZMA = 1 };
+enum comp_algo {
+	CBFS_COMPRESS_NONE = 0,
+	CBFS_COMPRESS_LZMA = 1,
+	CBFS_COMPRESS_LZ4 = 2,
+};
 
 comp_func_ptr compression_function(enum comp_algo algo);
 decomp_func_ptr decompression_function(enum comp_algo algo);