Deric,
Can you explain why changing all padding 0x0 to 0x90 (nop) in your patch?

Is it required to enable AP start up in pre-mem?

Thanks,
Ray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cole, Deric <deric.c...@intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 6:32 AM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io
> Cc: Cole, Deric <deric.c...@intel.com>; Dong, Eric <eric.d...@intel.com>; Ni,
> Ray <ray...@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] UefiCpuPkg/SecCore: Add pre-memory AP vector
> 
> REF:https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2776
> 
> Add a vector at 0xFF000 (0xFFFFF000) that can be used by Init-SIPI-SIPI
> to start an AP before memory is initialized. This vector jumps into the
> same SEC entry point as the ordinary reset vector, with a special value
> of "AP" in the DI register. The platform-specific SEC code is expected
> to check for that value and take a different path for APs, if this
> feature is supported by the platform.
> 
> Cc: Eric Dong <eric.d...@intel.com>
> Cc: Ray Ni <ray...@intel.com>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Deric Cole <deric.c...@intel.com>
> ---
>  UefiCpuPkg/SecCore/Ia32/ResetVec.nasmb | 31
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/UefiCpuPkg/SecCore/Ia32/ResetVec.nasmb
> b/UefiCpuPkg/SecCore/Ia32/ResetVec.nasmb
> index f41b9669d0..1dfc4efe4c 100644
> --- a/UefiCpuPkg/SecCore/Ia32/ResetVec.nasmb
> +++ b/UefiCpuPkg/SecCore/Ia32/ResetVec.nasmb
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
>  ; Abstract:
> 
>  ;
> 
>  ;  Reset Vector Data structure
> 
> -;  This structure is located at 0xFFFFFFC0
> 
> +;  This structure is located at 0xFFFFF000
> 
>  ;
> 
>  
> ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> @@ -23,19 +23,36 @@ USE16
>  ;
> 
> 
> 
>      ORG     0h
> 
> +
> 
> +;
> 
> +; 0xFFFFF000
> 
> +;
> 
> +; We enter here with CS:IP = 0xFF00:0x0000. Do a far-jump to change CS to
> 0xF000
> 
> +; and IP to ApStartup.
> 
> +;
> 
> +ApVector:
> 
> +    mov     di, "AP"
> 
> +    jmp     0xF000:0xF000+ApStartup
> 
> +
> 
> +    TIMES 0xFC0-($-$$) nop
> 
> +
> 
> +;
> 
> +; This should be at 0xFFFFFFC0
> 
> +;
> 
> +
> 
>  ;
> 
>  ; Reserved
> 
>  ;
> 
>  ReservedData:            DD 0eeeeeeeeh, 0eeeeeeeeh
> 
> 
> 
> -    TIMES 0x10-($-$$) DB 0
> 
> +    TIMES 0xFD0-($-$$) nop
> 
>  ;
> 
> -; This is located at 0xFFFFFFD0h
> 
> +; This is located at 0xFFFFFFD0
> 
>  ;
> 
>      mov     di, "PA"
> 
>      jmp     ApStartup
> 
> 
> 
> -    TIMES 0x20-($-$$) DB 0
> 
> +    TIMES 0xFE0-($-$$) nop
> 
>  ;
> 
>  ; Pointer to the entry point of the PEI core
> 
>  ; It is located at 0xFFFFFFE0, and is fixed up by some build tool
> 
> @@ -53,7 +70,7 @@ ASM_PFX(InterruptHandler):
>      jmp     $
> 
>      iret
> 
> 
> 
> -    TIMES 0x30-($-$$) DB 0
> 
> +    TIMES 0xFF0-($-$$) nop
> 
>  ;
> 
>  ; For IA32, the reset vector must be at 0xFFFFFFF0, i.e., 4G-16 byte
> 
>  ; Execution starts here upon power-on/platform-reset.
> 
> @@ -74,7 +91,7 @@ ApStartup:
>      DW      -3
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -    TIMES 0x38-($-$$) DB 0
> 
> +    TIMES 0xFF8-($-$$) nop
> 
>  ;
> 
>  ; Ap reset vector segment address is at 0xFFFFFFF8
> 
>  ; This will be fixed up by some build tool,
> 
> @@ -83,7 +100,7 @@ ApStartup:
>  ;
> 
>  ApSegAddress:    dd      12345678h
> 
> 
> 
> -    TIMES 0x3c-($-$$) DB 0
> 
> +    TIMES 0xFFC-($-$$) nop
> 
>  ;
> 
>  ; BFV Base is at 0xFFFFFFFC
> 
>  ; This will be fixed up by some build tool,
> 
> --
> 2.26.2.windows.1


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