arch/x86: introduce postcar stage/phase

Certain chipsets don't have a memory-mapped boot media
so their code execution for stages prior to DRAM initialization
is backed by SRAM or cache-as-ram. The postcar stage/phase
handles the cache-as-ram situation where in order to tear down
cache-as-ram one needs to be executing out of a backing
store that isn't transient. By current definition, cache-as-ram
is volatile and tearing it down leads to its contents disappearing.
Therefore provide a shim layer, postcar, that's loaded into
memory and executed which does 2 things:

1. Tears down cache-as-ram with a chipset helper function.
2. Loads and runs ramstage.

Because those 2 things are executed out of ram there's no issue
of the code's backing store while executing the code that
tears down cache-as-ram. The current implementation makes no
assumption regarding cacheability of the DRAM itself. If the
chipset code wishes to cache DRAM for loading of the postcar
stage/phase then it's also up to the chipset to handle any
coherency issues pertaining to cache-as-ram destruction.

Change-Id: Ia58efdadd0b48f20cfe7de2f49ab462306c3a19b
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/14140
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/program.ld b/src/lib/program.ld
index 9b8c7c9ec1ad..99afe5dd560f 100644
--- a/src/lib/program.ld
+++ b/src/lib/program.ld
@@ -80,7 +80,14 @@
 	. = ALIGN(ARCH_CACHELINE_ALIGN_SIZE);
 	_data = .;
 
-#if ENV_RMODULE
+/*
+ * The postcar phase uses a stack value that is located in the relocatable
+ * module section. While the postcar stage could be linked like smm and
+ * other rmodules the postcar stage needs similar semantics of the more
+ * traditional stages in the coreboot infrastructure. Therefore it's easier
+ * to specialize this case.
+ */
+#if ENV_RMODULE || ENV_POSTCAR
 	_rmodule_params = .;
 	KEEP(*(.module_parameters));
 	_ermodule_params = .;