the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 149c4c5d0191f1728a66ec986c3eae698cbf87cb Author: Damien Zammit damien@zamaudio.com Date: Sat Nov 28 21:27:05 2015 +1100
x86/smm: Initialize SMM on some CPUs one-by-one
We currently race in SMM init on Atom 230 (and potentially other CPUs). At least on the 230, this leads to a hang on RSM, likely because both hyperthreads mess around with SMBASE and other SMM state variables in parallel without coordination. The same behaviour occurs with Atom D5xx.
Change it so first APs are spun up and sent to sleep, then BSP initializes SMM, then every CPU, one after another.
Only do this when SERIALIZE_SMM_INITIALIZATION is set. Set the flag for Atom CPUs.
Change-Id: I1ae864e37546298ea222e81349c27cf774ed251f Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi patrick@georgi-clan.de Signed-off-by: Damien Zammit damien@zamaudio.com Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/6311 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Tested-by: BSI firmware lab coreboot-labor@bsi.bund.de Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org
See https://review.coreboot.org/6311 for details.
-gerrit