the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 738af675d1b29847112f32b3fb2ac2524bb7c4ca Author: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org Date: Wed Feb 13 11:22:25 2013 -0600
haswell: support for parallel SMM relocation
The haswell processors support the ability to save their SMM state into MSR space instead of the memory. This feaure allows for parallel SMM relocation handlers as well as setting the same SMBASE for each CPU since the save state memory area is not used.
The catch is that in order determine if this feature is available the CPU needs to be in SMM context. In order to implement parallel SMM relocation the BSP enters the relocation handler twice. The first time is to determine if that feature is available. If it is, then that feature is enabled the BSP exits the relocation handler without relocating SMBASE. It then releases the APs to run the SMM relocation handler. After the APs have completed the relocation the BSP will re-enter the SMM relocation handler to relocate its own SMBASE to the final location. If the parallel SMM feature is not available the BSP relocates its SMBASE as it did before.
This change also introduces the BSP waiting for the APs to relocate their SMBASE before proceeding with the remainder of the boot process.
Ensured both the parallel path and the serial path still continue to work on cold, warm, and S3 resume paths.
Change-Id: Iea24fd8f9561f1b194393cdb77c79adb48039ea2 Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/2801 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@gmail.com
Build-Tested: build bot (Jenkins) at Tue Mar 19 06:24:26 2013, giving +1 Reviewed-By: Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@gmail.com at Thu Mar 21 22:56:20 2013, giving +2 See http://review.coreboot.org/2801 for details.
-gerrit