New patch to review for coreboot: df70599 Add spinlock to serialize Intel microcode updates

[Stefan Reinauer]

Stefan Reinauer ([e-mail]) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/1778

-gerrit

commit df705995edff81e551090b13e0caa7f7f8bf49f3
Author: Stefan Reinauer 
Date:   Mon Oct 15 13:18:06 2012 -0700

Add spinlock to serialize Intel microcode updates

Updating microcode on several threads in a core at once
    can be harmful. Hence add a spinlock to make sure that
    does not happen.

Change-Id: I0c9526b6194202ae7ab5c66361fe04ce137372cc
    Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer 
---
 src/cpu/intel/microcode/microcode.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/cpu/intel/microcode/microcode.c b/src/cpu/intel/microcode/microcode.c
index a4471ca..8f3c926 100644
--- a/src/cpu/intel/microcode/microcode.c
+++ b/src/cpu/intel/microcode/microcode.c
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@
 #ifdef __PRE_RAM__
 #include <arch/cbfs.h>
 #else
+#include <smp/spinlock.h>
 #include <cbfs.h>
+DECLARE_SPIN_LOCK(microcode_lock)
 #endif
 #endif

@@ -111,6 +113,9 @@ void intel_update_microcode(const void *microcode_updates)
     */
    printk(BIOS_DEBUG, "microcode: sig=0x%x pf=0x%x revision=0x%x\n",
    		sig, pf, rev);
+#if !defined(__PRE_RAM__)
+	spin_lock(&microcode_lock);
+#endif
 #endif

m = microcode_updates;
@@ -142,6 +147,10 @@ void intel_update_microcode(const void *microcode_updates)
    		c += 2048;
    	}
    }
+
+#if !defined(__ROMCC__) && !defined(__PRE_RAM__)
+	spin_unlock(&microcode_lock);
+#endif
 }

#if CONFIG_CPU_MICROCODE_IN_CBFS