powerpc/boot: Build boot wrapper with optimisations
The boot wrapper is currently built with -Os. By building with O2 we can meaningfully reduce the time decompressing the kernel. I tested by comparing 10 runs of each option in Qemu and on hardware. The kernel is compressed with KERNEL_XZ built with GCC 8.2.0-7ubuntu1. The values are counts of the timebase. Qemu TCG powernv Power8: Os O2 O3 median 10221123889 6201518438 6568186825 stddev 1361267211 429090641 657930076 improvement 39.33% 35.74% Palmetto Power8: Os O2 O3 median 50279 50599 35790 stddev 992144533 627130655 623721078 improvement 36.79% 37.13% Romulus Power9: Os O2 O3 median 670312391 454733720 448881398 stddev 157569 107276 108760 improvement 32.16% 33.03% TCG was quite noisy, with every few runs producing an outlier. Even so, O2 is faster than O3. On hardware the numbers were less noisy and O3 is slightly faster than O2. The wrapper size increases when moving from Os. Comparing zImage.epapr to the existing Os build using bloat-o-meter: Before=43401, After=56837 (13KB), chg +30.96% Before=43401, After=64305 (20KB), chg +48.16% I chose O2 for a balance between Qemu and hardware speed up. Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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