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authorJeff Fan <jeff.fan@intel.com>2016-03-02 09:45:14 +0800
committerHao Wu <hao.a.wu@intel.com>2016-03-03 09:47:25 +0800
commit5729f0ca6212c01102ec82a8991ae195ef2ca998 (patch)
tree152393c4e905ab986618121142cb42ab975a67d4
parent2a44566d80032386e8e2e37a04e4ddf0405c04ea (diff)
downloadedk2-platforms-5729f0ca6212c01102ec82a8991ae195ef2ca998.tar.xz
UefiCpuPkg/CpuMpPei: Load microcode if found newer revision
Current implementation only loads the latest revision if there is no microcode loaded. Per IA32 User Manual, we should load the newer revision by comparing the existing microcode loaded with the updating revision. Cc: Feng Tian <feng.tian@intel.com> Cc: Michael Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0 Signed-off-by: Jeff Fan <jeff.fan@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Feng Tian <feng.tian@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com> (cherry picked from commit 15dbb3933282c0f55ceb5ab501e26cb17cff5560)
-rw-r--r--UefiCpuPkg/CpuMpPei/Microcode.c18
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/UefiCpuPkg/CpuMpPei/Microcode.c b/UefiCpuPkg/CpuMpPei/Microcode.c
index 70e149be87..9dcbf99db3 100644
--- a/UefiCpuPkg/CpuMpPei/Microcode.c
+++ b/UefiCpuPkg/CpuMpPei/Microcode.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/** @file
Implementation of loading microcode on processors.
- Copyright (c) 2015, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>
+ Copyright (c) 2015 - 2016, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>
This program and the accompanying materials
are licensed and made available under the terms and conditions of the BSD License
which accompanies this distribution. The full text of the license may be found at
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ MicrocodeDetect (
UINTN TotalSize;
UINT32 CheckSum32;
BOOLEAN CorrectMicrocode;
- INT32 CurrentSignature;
MICROCODE_INFO MicrocodeInfo;
ZeroMem (&MicrocodeInfo, sizeof (MICROCODE_INFO));
@@ -181,17 +180,20 @@ MicrocodeDetect (
if (LatestRevision > 0) {
//
- // Get microcode update signature of currently loaded microcode update
+ // BIOS only authenticate updates that contain a numerically larger revision
+ // than the currently loaded revision, where Current Signature < New Update
+ // Revision. A processor with no loaded update is considered to have a
+ // revision equal to zero.
//
- CurrentSignature = GetCurrentMicrocodeSignature ();
- //
- // If no microcode update has been loaded, then trigger microcode load.
- //
- if (CurrentSignature == 0) {
+ if (LatestRevision > GetCurrentMicrocodeSignature ()) {
AsmWriteMsr64 (
EFI_MSR_IA32_BIOS_UPDT_TRIG,
(UINT64) (UINTN) MicrocodeInfo.MicrocodeData
);
+ //
+ // Get and verify new microcode signature
+ //
+ ASSERT (LatestRevision == GetCurrentMicrocodeSignature ());
MicrocodeInfo.Load = TRUE;
} else {
MicrocodeInfo.Load = FALSE;