On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 10:37:58AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> (adding Achin and Charles)
>
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 10:16, Ni, Ray <ray...@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: edk2-devel <edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org> On Behalf Of Ard
> > > Biesheuvel
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 3:38 PM
> > > To: Ni, Ray <ray...@intel.com>
> > > Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> > > Subject: Re: [edk2] Does ARM platform produce MP protocol?
> > >
> > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 06:44, Ni, Ray <ray...@intel.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Ard, Leif,
> > > > I am a bit interested in how ARM platform supports the MP?
> > > > PI Spec defines below protocol but I failed to find a driver in ARM
> > > > platform
> > > producing this protocol.
> > > > Or did I miss anything?
> > > >
> > >
> > > No you are right. We don't expose that on ARM, since UEFI only runs on a
> > > single core. Bringing up and taking down cores is done via a protocol
> > > called
> > > PSCI, which is implemented by firmware running at a higher privilege
> > > level.
> > >
> > > So while it would be possible to implement the MP protocol on top of PSCI,
> > > we haven't identified a use case for it yet. (The OS calls PSCI directly
> > > to boot
> > > the secondary cores)
IIUC, the MP protocol enables communication between processors that are already
up instead of bringing them up or taking them down. So, it is orthogonal to
PSCI. Is that what you meant?
> >
> > Is below EFI_MM_MP_PROTOCOL (added in PI spec 1.6) implemented in ARM?
> > Or will it be implemented by an ARM module?
>
> No it is currently not implemented, and I am not aware of any plans to do so.
+1. There is no need to do this until UEFI runs on a single core on Arm.
>
> > I am asking this because MP_SERVICES protocol exposes CPU location
> > information
> > (Package/Core/Thread) through *GetProcessorInfo*, but MM_MP protocol doesn't
> > have a way to expose that information.
> > If such location information isn't exposed by MM_MP, is that because ARM
> > doesn't
> > care about the location information? Or because ARM cares but forgot to add
> > similar
> > *GetProcessorInfo* interface to MM_MP when changing the PI spec?
> > Or ARM doesn't use the MM_MP at all?
Even if Arm used this protocol, it can work with the logical processor number. I
don't see a need to expose the location information to the caller. It seems very
Intel specific. Is the EFI_MP_SERVICES_PROTOCOL used on Arm?
> >
>
> I don't know the history of this protocol and who proposed it, but
> today, we don't have a need for running per-CPU initialization code in
> the context of MM. Even if MM is a component of the more privileged
> firmware running on an ARM system, it is running in a sandbox that was
> primarily designed around exposing MM services to UEFI code running at
> the same privilege level as the OS (such as the authenticated variable
> store). Platform initialization code (which is more likely to require
> dispatch to each core) runs in the secure world as well, but not in
> the context of MM.
>
> I will let Achin chime in here as well.
+1.
I will let Charles comment on the history. Maybe this protocol was designed
for Arm systems where MM is the most privileged firmware. The upstream
implementation runs MM in the lowest privilege level. Either way, this protocol
sense only when MM on Arm is MP capable.
cheers,
Achin
>
>
> > typedef struct _EFI_MM_MP_PROTOCOL {
> > UINT32 Revision,
> > UINT32 Attributes,
> > EFI_MM_ GET_NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS GetNumberOfProcessors,
> > EFI_MM_DISPATCH_PROCEDURE DispatchProcedure,
> > EFI_MM_BROADCAST_PROCEDURE BroadcastProcedure,
> > EFI_MM_SET_STARTUP_PROCEDURE SetStartupProcedure,
> > EFI_CHECK_FOR_PROCEDURE CheckOnProcedure,
> > EFI_WAIT_FOR_PROCEDURE WaitForProcedure,
> > }EFI_MM_MP_PROTOCOL;
> > >
> > > > typedef struct _EFI_MP_SERVICES_PROTOCOL {
> > > > EFI_MP_SERVICES_GET_NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS
> > > GetNumberOfProcessors;
> > > > EFI_MP_SERVICES_GET_PROCESSOR_INFO GetProcessorInfo;
> > > > EFI_MP_SERVICES_STARTUP_ALL_APS StartupAllAPs;
> > > > EFI_MP_SERVICES_STARTUP_THIS_AP StartupThisAP;
> > > > EFI_MP_SERVICES_SWITCH_BSP SwitchBSP;
> > > EFI_MP_SERVICES_ENABLEDISABLEAP
> > > > EnableDisableAP; EFI_MP_SERVICES_WHOAMI WhoAmI; }
> > > > EFI_MP_SERVICES_PROTOCOL;
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Ray
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