[M] Change in flashrom[main]: erasure_layout: Add an option to sacrifice unchanged blocks for speed

[Anastasia Klimchuk (Code Review)]

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Anastasia Klimchuk has uploaded a new patch set (#11) to the change originally created by Bill XIE. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/84721?usp=email )

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Change subject: erasure_layout: Add an option to sacrifice unchanged blocks for speed
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erasure_layout: Add an option to sacrifice unchanged blocks for speed

The patch adds command line option to handle the following situation:

There is a region which is requested to be erased (or written, because
the write operation uses erase too). Some of the areas inside this
region don't need to be erased, because the bytes already have expected
value. Such areas can be skipped.

The logic selects eraseblocks that can cover the areas which need to be
erased. Suppose there is a region which is partially covered by
eraseblocks of size S (partially because remaining areas don't need to
be erased). Now suppose we can cover the whole region with eraseblock
of larger size, S+1, and erase it all at once. This will run faster:
erase opcode will only be sent once instead of many smaller opcodes.
However, this will run erase over some areas of the chip memory that
didn't need to be erased. Which means, the chip, as a hardware, will
wear faster.

New command line option sets the maximum % memory that is allowed for
redundant erase. Default is 0, S+1 size block only selected if all the
area needs to be erased in full. 50 means that if more than a half of
the area needs to be erased, a S+1 size block can be selected to cover
all area with one block.

The tradeoff is the speed of programming operation VS the longevity of
the chip. Default is longevity.

Change-Id: I154e8a713f626c37dbbe118db700055b96d24803
Co-developed-by: persmule <[e-mail]
Co-developed-by: Anastasia Klimchuk 
Signed-off-by: persmule 
Signed-off-by: Anastasia Klimchuk 
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M cli_classic.c
M doc/classic_cli_manpage.rst
M doc/release_notes/devel.rst
M erasure_layout.c
M include/flash.h
M tests/erase_func_algo.c
6 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/flashrom refs/changes/21/84721/11