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AMD CPUs have a convenient MSR that allows to set the SMBASE in the save state without ever entering SMM (e.g. at the default 0x30000 address). This has been a feature in all AMD CPUs since at least AMD K8. This allows to do relocation in parallel in ramstage and without setting up a relocation handler, which likely results in a speedup. The more cores the higher the speedup as relocation was happening sequentially. On a 4 core AMD picasso system this results in 33ms boot speedup. TESTED on google/vilboz (Picasso) with CONFIG_SMI_DEBUG: verify that SMM is correctly relocated with the BSP correctly entering the smihandler. Change-Id: I9729fb94ed5c18cfd57b8098c838c08a04490e4b Signed-off-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/64872 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Felix Held <felix-coreboot@felixheld.de> |
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