Subrata Banik has uploaded this change for review.

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arch/x86: Add postcar_frame_add_ramcache() API

This patch adds new API for intermediate caching top_of_ram
and setting up required MTRR for next stage.

Change-Id: Iddafb573afb4799de64754a94816d7f3f2f4982f
Signed-off-by: Subrata Banik <subrata.banik@intel.com>
---
M src/arch/x86/include/arch/cpu.h
M src/arch/x86/postcar_loader.c
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/05/34805/1

diff --git a/src/arch/x86/include/arch/cpu.h b/src/arch/x86/include/arch/cpu.h
index 293ca02..7dc4049 100644
--- a/src/arch/x86/include/arch/cpu.h
+++ b/src/arch/x86/include/arch/cpu.h
@@ -329,6 +329,13 @@
 void postcar_frame_add_romcache(struct postcar_frame *pcf, int type);
 
 /*
+ * Add variable MTRR covering the Top of RAM with given MTRR type.
+ */
+void postcar_frame_add_ramcache(struct postcar_frame *pcf,
+				uintptr_t addr, size_t size, int type);
+
+
+/*
  * Push used MTRR and Max MTRRs on to the stack
  * and return pointer to stack top.
  */
diff --git a/src/arch/x86/postcar_loader.c b/src/arch/x86/postcar_loader.c
index 35e139f..8a1f6cb 100644
--- a/src/arch/x86/postcar_loader.c
+++ b/src/arch/x86/postcar_loader.c
@@ -120,6 +120,29 @@
 	postcar_frame_add_mtrr(pcf, CACHE_ROM_BASE, CACHE_ROM_SIZE, type);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Make sure we are enabling intermediate caching to speed up next stage
+ * (postcar/romstage) loading and decompression as we are still in romstage
+ * and CAR tear down will be handled by next stage at its entry.
+ */
+static void enable_top_of_ram_cache(uintptr_t base, size_t size)
+{
+	int mtrr = get_free_var_mtrr();
+
+	if (mtrr == -1)
+		return;
+
+	set_var_mtrr(mtrr, base, size, MTRR_TYPE_WRPROT);
+}
+
+void postcar_frame_add_ramcache(struct postcar_frame *pcf,
+				uintptr_t addr, size_t size, int type)
+{
+	/* enable intermediate caching for Top of RAM */
+	enable_top_of_ram_cache(addr, size);
+	postcar_frame_add_mtrr(pcf, addr, size, type);
+}
+
 void *postcar_commit_mtrrs(struct postcar_frame *pcf)
 {
 	/*

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