[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 3/4] support booting with more than 255 CPUs
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Tue May 10 17:35:28 CEST 2016
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 05:31:33PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2016 11:20:54 -0400
> "Kevin O'Connor" <kevin at koconnor.net> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 04:43:33PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > > SDM[*1] says that if there are CPUs with APIC ID
> > > greater than 254, BIOS is to pass control to OS
> > > in x2APIC mode. Use the fact that QEMU passes in
> > > "etc/max-cpus" max possible "APIC ID + 1" to
> > > detect need for x2APIC mode. Also instead of
> > > CMOS_BIOS_SMP_COUNT which is limited to 256 CPUs
> > > use a new rom file "etc/boot-cpus" that QEMU
> > > supporting more than 256 CPUs will provide.
> > >
> > > *1) SDM: Volume 3: EXTENDED XAPIC (X2APIC):
> > > Initialization by System Software
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo at redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > > src/fw/smp.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > > src/x86.h | 1 +
> > > 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/src/fw/smp.c b/src/fw/smp.c
> > > index ad98a5f..18a4c77 100644
> > > --- a/src/fw/smp.c
> > > +++ b/src/fw/smp.c
> > > @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
> > > #define APIC_LINT1 ((u8*)BUILD_APIC_ADDR + 0x360)
> > >
> > > #define APIC_ENABLED 0x0100
> > > +#define MSR_IA32_APIC_BASE 0x01B
> > > +#define MSR_LOCAL_APIC_ID 0x802
> > > +#define MSR_IA32_APICBASE_EXTD (1ULL << 10) /* Enable x2APIC mode */
> > >
> > > static struct { u32 index; u64 val; } smp_mtrr[32];
> > > static u32 smp_mtrr_count;
> > > @@ -49,23 +52,46 @@ int apic_id_is_present(u8 apic_id)
> > > static int
> > > count_cpu(void)
> > > {
> > > + u32 apic_id;
> > > CountCPUs++;
> > >
> > > - // Track found apic id for use in legacy internal bios tables
> > > u32 eax, ebx, ecx, cpuid_features;
> > > cpuid(1, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &cpuid_features);
> > > - u8 apic_id = ebx>>24;
> > > - FoundAPICIDs[apic_id/32] |= 1 << (apic_id % 32);
> > > + apic_id = ebx>>24;
> > > + if (MaxCountCPUs < 256) { // xAPIC mode
> > > + // Track found apic id for use in legacy internal bios tables
> > > + FoundAPICIDs[apic_id/32] |= 1 << (apic_id % 32);
> > > + }
> > > + if (rdmsr(MSR_IA32_APIC_BASE) & MSR_IA32_APICBASE_EXTD) { // x2APIC mode
> > > + apic_id = rdmsr(MSR_LOCAL_APIC_ID);
> > > + }
> > >
> > > return apic_id;
> > > }
> > >
> > > +static void
> > > +handle_x2apic(void)
> > > +{
> > > + if (MaxCountCPUs < 256)
> > > + return;
> > > +
> > > + u32 eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
> > > + cpuid(1, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
> > > + if (!(ecx & CPUID_X2APIC))
> > > + return;
> > > +
> > > + // switch to x2APIC mode
> > > + u64 apic_base = rdmsr(MSR_IA32_APIC_BASE);
> > > + wrmsr(MSR_IA32_APIC_BASE, apic_base | MSR_IA32_APICBASE_EXTD);
> > > +}
> >
> > Can we integrate handle_x2apic() into count_cpu() as in:
> >
> > static int
> > count_cpu(void)
> > {
> > CountCPUs++;
> >
> > u32 eax, ebx, ecx, cpuid_features;
> > cpuid(1, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &cpuid_features);
> > if (MaxCountCPUs < 256) { // xAPIC mode
> > // Track found apic id for use in legacy internal bios tables
> > FoundAPICIDs[apic_id/32] |= 1 << (apic_id % 32);
> > return ebx>>24;
> > }
> >
> > // x2APIC mode
> > if (!(ecx & CPUID_X2APIC))
> > return -1;
> > u64 apic_base = rdmsr(MSR_IA32_APIC_BASE);
> > wrmsr(MSR_IA32_APIC_BASE, apic_base | MSR_IA32_APICBASE_EXTD);
> > return rdmsr(MSR_LOCAL_APIC_ID);
> > }
> >
> > count_cpu may be a poor choice of name, but if we could put all the
> > apic stuff in one function and call it from both handle_smp() and
> > smp_setup() I think it would make the code a little easier to
> > understand.
> sure
>
> perhaps 's/count_cpu/apic_id_init/'
Great. Thanks.
-Kevin
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