[coreboot] New patch to review for coreboot: 19df996 haswell: set TSEG as WB cacheable in romstage

Stefan Reinauer (stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org) gerrit at coreboot.org
Tue Mar 19 01:59:18 CET 2013


Stefan Reinauer (stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/2803

-gerrit

commit 19df996e79b2fbd2d6916e104ce0491b6f1d599f
Author: Aaron Durbin <adurbin at chromium.org>
Date:   Fri Feb 15 15:08:37 2013 -0600

    haswell: set TSEG as WB cacheable in romstage
    
    The TSEG region is accessible until the SMM handler is relocated
    to that region. Set the region as cacheable in romstage so that it
    can be used for other purposes with fast access.
    
    Change-Id: I92b83896e40bc26a54c2930e05c02492918e0874
    Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin at chromium.org>
---
 src/cpu/intel/haswell/romstage.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cpu/intel/haswell/romstage.c b/src/cpu/intel/haswell/romstage.c
index ac0e848..b26cbde 100644
--- a/src/cpu/intel/haswell/romstage.c
+++ b/src/cpu/intel/haswell/romstage.c
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ static void *setup_romstage_stack_after_car(void)
 	int num_mtrrs;
 	u32 *slot;
 	u32 mtrr_mask_upper;
+	u32 top_of_ram;
 
 	/* Top of stack needs to be aligned to a 4-byte boundary. */
 	top_of_stack = choose_top_of_stack() & ~3;
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ static void *setup_romstage_stack_after_car(void)
 	slot = stack_push(slot, 0 | MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK);
 	num_mtrrs++;
 
+	top_of_ram = get_top_of_ram();
 	/* Cache 8MiB below the top of ram. On haswell systems the top of
 	 * ram under 4GiB is the start of the TSEG region. It is required to
 	 * be 8MiB aligned. Set this area as cacheable so it can be used later
@@ -127,8 +129,18 @@ static void *setup_romstage_stack_after_car(void)
 	slot = stack_push(slot, mtrr_mask_upper); /* upper mask */
 	slot = stack_push(slot, ~((8 << 20) - 1) | MTRRphysMaskValid);
 	slot = stack_push(slot, 0); /* upper base */
-	slot = stack_push(slot,
-	                  (get_top_of_ram() - (8 << 20)) | MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK);
+	slot = stack_push(slot, (top_of_ram - (8 << 20)) | MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK);
+	num_mtrrs++;
+
+	/* Cache 8MiB at the top of ram. Top of ram on haswell systems
+	 * is where the TSEG region resides. However, it is not restricted
+	 * to SMM mode until SMM has been relocated. By setting the region
+	 * to cacheable it provides faster access when relocating the SMM
+	 * handler as well as using the TSEG region for other purposes. */
+	slot = stack_push(slot, mtrr_mask_upper); /* upper mask */
+	slot = stack_push(slot, ~((8 << 20) - 1) | MTRRphysMaskValid);
+	slot = stack_push(slot, 0); /* upper base */
+	slot = stack_push(slot, top_of_ram | MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK);
 	num_mtrrs++;
 
 	/* Save the number of MTTRs to setup. Return the stack location



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