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authorSubrata Banik <subrata.banik@intel.com>2019-03-11 16:09:58 +0530
committerPatrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>2019-03-19 21:41:34 +0000
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Documentation/soc/intel/fsp: Move mp_service_ppi document in corrct directory
This patch moves mp service ppi document from icelake/MultiProcesorInit.md to ppi/mp_service_ppi.c. Change-Id: I1bbaeb2644f219b5a1fda0c7c4b594184d53958c Signed-off-by: Subrata Banik <subrata.banik@intel.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31840 Reviewed-by: Werner Zeh <werner.zeh@siemens.com> Reviewed-by: Patrick Rudolph <siro@das-labor.org> Reviewed-by: Philipp Deppenwiese <zaolin.daisuki@gmail.com> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
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+# Intel Common Code Block Publishing EFI_MP_SERVICES_PPI
+
+## Introduction
+
+This documentation is intended to document the purpose for creating EFI service
+Interface inside coreboot space to perform CPU feature programming on Application
+Processors for Intel 9th Gen (Cannon Lake) and beyond CPUs.
+
+Today coreboot is capable enough to handle multi-processor initialization on IA platforms.
+
+The multi-processor initialization code has to take care of lots of duties:
+
+1. Bringing all cores out of reset
+2. Load latest microcode on all cores
+3. Sync latest MTRR snapshot between BSP and APs
+4. Perform sets of CPU feature programming
+ * CPU Power & Thermal Management
+ * Overclocking
+ * Intel Trusted Execution Technology
+ * Intel Software Guard Extensions
+ * Intel Processor Trace etc.
+
+This above CPU feature programming lists are expected to grow with current and future
+CPU complexity and there might be some cases where certain feature programming mightbe
+closed source in nature.
+
+Platform code might need to compromise on those closed source nature of CPU programming
+if we don't plan to provide an alternate interface which can be used by coreboot to
+get-rid of such close source CPU programming.
+
+## Proposal
+
+As coreboot is doing CPU multi-processor initialization for IA platform before FSP-S
+initialization and having all possible information about cores in terms of maximum number
+of cores, APIC ids, stack size etc. It’s also possible for coreboot to extend its own
+support model and create a sets of APIs which later can be used by FSP to run CPU feature
+programming using coreboot published APIs.
+
+Due to the fact that FSP is using EFI infrastructure and need to relying on install/locate
+PPI to perform certain API call, hence coreboot has to created MP services APIs known as
+EFI_MP_SERVICES_PPI as per PI specification volume 1, section 8.3.9.
+More details here: [PI_Spec_1_6]
+
+### coreboot to publish EFI_MP_SERVICES_PPI APIs
+
+```eval_rst
++------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| API | Description |
++==============================+==================================================================+
+| PeiGetNumberOfProcessors | Get the number of CPU's. |
++------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| PeiGetProcessorInfo | Get information on a specific CPU. |
++------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| PeiStartupAllAPs | Activate all of the application processors. |
++------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| PeiStartupThisAP | Activate a specific application processor. |
++------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| PeiSwitchBSP | Switch the boot strap processor. |
++------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| PeiEnableDisableAP | Enable or disable an application processor. |
++------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| PeiWhoAmI | Identify the currently executing processor. |
++------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
+```
+
+## Code Flow
+
+Here is proposed design flow with coreboot has implemented EFI_MP_SERVICES_PPI API and FSP will make
+use of the same to perform some CPU feature programming.
+
+**coreboot-FSP MP init flow**
+![coreboot-fsp mp init flow][coreboot_publish_mp_service_api]
+
+[coreboot_publish_mp_service_api]: coreboot_publish_mp_service_api.png
+
+## Benefits
+1. coreboot was using SkipMpInit=1 which will skip entire FSP CPU feature programming.
+With proposed model, coreboot will make use of SkipMpInit=0 which will allow to run all
+Silicon recommended CPU programming.
+2. CPU feature programming inside FSP will be more transparent than before as it’s using
+coreboot interfaces to execute those programming.
+3. coreboot will have more control over running those feature programming as API optimization
+handled by coreboot.
+
+[PI_Spec_1_6]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/PI_Spec_1_6.pdf
diff --git a/Documentation/soc/intel/fsp/ppi/ppi.md b/Documentation/soc/intel/fsp/ppi/ppi.md
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@@ -7,3 +7,8 @@ where FSP should be able to locate PPI, published by boot firmware and
able to execute the same in FSP's context.
* [What is PPI](https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/reference-guides/efi-pei-cis-v09.pdf)
+
+## List of PPI service
+
+### Publish MP Service PPI from boot firmware (coreboot) to initialize CPU
+- [MP Service PPI](mp_service_ppi.md)