UefiCpuPkg/MpInitLib: avoid printing debug messages in AP #1498
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MpInitLib contains a function MicrocodeDetect() which is called by
all threads as an AP procedure.
Today this function contains below code:
When the if-check is passed, the code may call into PEI services:
AcquireSpinLock
When the PcdSpinTimeout is not 0, TimerLib
GetPerformanceCounterProperties() is called. And some of the
TimerLib implementations would get the information cached in
HOB. But AP procedure cannot call PEI services to retrieve the
HOB list.
DEBUG
Certain DebugLib relies on ReportStatusCode services and the
ReportStatusCode PPI is retrieved through the PEI services.
DebugLibSerialPort should be used.
But when SerialPortLib is implemented to depend on PEI services,
even using DebugLibSerialPort can still cause AP calls PEI
services resulting hang.
It causes a lot of debugging effort on the platform side.
There are 2 options to fix the problem:
PcdSpinTimeout to 0. So that AcquireSpinLock and DEBUG don't call
PEI services.
Option #2 is preferred because it's not practical to ask every
platform DSC to be written properly.
Following option #2, there are two sub-options:
2.A. Just remove the if-check.
2.B. Capture the CurrentRevision and ExpectedRevision in the memory
for each AP and print them together from BSP.
The patch follows option 2.B.
Signed-off-by: Ray Ni ray.ni@intel.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Dong eric.dong@intel.com
Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek lersek@redhat.com
Cc: Rahul Kumar rahul1.kumar@intel.com