libc/memset: Implement function in assembler
Trace analysis of FVP_Base_AEMv8A model running in
Aarch32 mode with the build options listed below:
TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT=1 GENERATE_COT=1
ARM_ROTPK_LOCATION=devel_ecdsa KEY_ALG=ecdsa
ROT_KEY=plat/arm/board/common/rotpk/arm_rotprivk_ecdsa.pem
shows that when auth_signature() gets called
71.84% of CPU execution time is spent in memset() function
written in C using single byte write operations,
see lib\libc\memset.c.
This patch replaces C memset() implementation with assembler
version giving the following results:
- for Aarch32 in auth_signature() call memset() CPU time
reduced to 24.84%.
- Number of CPU instructions executed during TF-A
boot stage before start of BL33 in RELEASE builds:
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|  Arch   |     C      |  assembler |    %   |
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| Aarch32 | 2073275460 | 1487400003 | -28.25 |
| Aarch64 | 2056807158 | 1244898303 | -39.47 |
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The patch also replaces memset.c with aarch64/memset.S
in plat\nvidia\tegra\platform.mk.

Change-Id: Ifbf085a2f577a25491e2d28446ee95a4ac891597
Signed-off-by: Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>
1 parent e268ea2 commit e7d344de01ad11b856233634717aafe9312697e4
@Alexei Fedorov Alexei Fedorov authored on 16 Aug 2020
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