[PATCH v7 12/12] Documentation: In-Field Scan

Tony Luck
2022-05-06T22:55:35Z

Add documentation for In-Field Scan (IFS). This documentation
describes the basics of IFS, the loading IFS image, chunk
authentication, running scan and how to check result via sysfs.

The CORE_CAPABILITIES MSR enumerates whether IFS is supported.

The full github location for distributing the IFS images is
still being decided. So just a placeholder included for now
in the documentation.

Future CPUs will support more than one type of test. Plan for
that now by using a "_0" suffix on the ABI directory names.
Additional test types will use "_1", etc.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
---
Documentation/x86/ifs.rst | 2 +
Documentation/x86/index.rst | 1 +
drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs/ifs.h | 110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 113 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/ifs.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/ifs.rst b/Documentation/x86/ifs.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..97abb696a680
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/x86/ifs.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs/ifs.h
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
index 91b2fa456618..9d8e8a73d57b 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ x86-specific Documentation
usb-legacy-support
i386/index
x86_64/index
+ ifs
sva
sgx
features
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs/ifs.h b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs/ifs.h
index 720bd18a5e91..73c8e91cf144 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs/ifs.h
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs/ifs.h
@@ -4,6 +4,116 @@
#ifndef _IFS_H_
#define _IFS_H_

+/**
+ * DOC: In-Field Scan
+ *
+ * =============
+ * In-Field Scan
+ * =============
+ *
+ * Introduction
+ * ------------
+ *
+ * In Field Scan (IFS) is a hardware feature to run circuit level tests on
+ * a CPU core to detect problems that are not caught by parity or ECC checks.
+ * Future CPUs will support more than one type of test which will show up
+ * with a new platform-device instance-id, for now only .0 is exposed.
+ *
+ *
+ * IFS Image
+ * ---------
+ *
+ * Intel provides a firmware file containing the scan tests via
+ * github [#f1]_. Similar to microcode there is a separate file for each
+ * family-model-stepping.
+ *
+ * IFS Image Loading
+ * -----------------
+ *
+ * The driver loads the tests into memory reserved BIOS local to each CPU
+ * socket in a two step process using writes to MSRs to first load the
+ * SHA hashes for the test. Then the tests themselves. Status MSRs provide
+ * feedback on the success/failure of these steps. When a new test file
+ * is installed it can be loaded by writing to the driver reload file::
+ *
+ * # echo 1 > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/intel_ifs_0/reload
+ *
+ * Similar to microcode, the current version of the scan tests is stored
+ * in a fixed location: /lib/firmware/intel/ifs.0/family-model-stepping.scan
+ *
+ * Running tests
+ * -------------
+ *
+ * Tests are run by the driver synchronizing execution of all threads on a
+ * core and then writing to the ACTIVATE_SCAN MSR on all threads. Instruction
+ * execution continues when:
+ *
+ * 1) All tests have completed.
+ * 2) Execution was interrupted.
+ * 3) A test detected a problem.
+ *
+ * Note that ALL THREADS ON THE CORE ARE EFFECTIVELY OFFLINE FOR THE
+ * DURATION OF THE TEST. This can be up to 200 milliseconds. If the system
+ * is running latency sensitive applications that cannot tolerate an
+ * interruption of this magnitude, the system administrator must arrange
+ * to migrate those applications to other cores before running a core test.
+ * It may also be necessary to redirect interrupts to other CPUs.
+ *
+ * In all cases reading the SCAN_STATUS MSR provides details on what
+ * happened. The driver makes the value of this MSR visible to applications
+ * via the "details" file (see below). Interrupted tests may be restarted.
+ *
+ * The IFS driver provides sysfs interfaces via /sys/devices/virtual/misc/intel_ifs_0/
+ * to control execution:
+ *
+ * Test a specific core::
+ *
+ * # echo <cpu#> > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/intel_ifs_0/run_test
+ *
+ * when HT is enabled any of the sibling cpu# can be specified to test
+ * its corresponding physical core. Since the tests are per physical core,
+ * the result of testing any thread is same. All siblings must be online
+ * to run a core test. It is only necessary to test one thread.
+ *
+ * For e.g. to test core corresponding to cpu5
+ *
+ * # echo 5 > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/intel_ifs_0/run_test
+ *
+ * Results of the last test is provided in /sys::
+ *
+ * $ cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/intel_ifs_0/status
+ * pass
+ *
+ * Status can be one of pass, fail, untested
+ *
+ * Additional details of the last test is provided by the details file::
+ *
+ * $ cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/intel_ifs_0/details
+ * 0x8081
+ *
+ * The details file reports the hex value of the SCAN_STATUS MSR.
+ * Hardware defined error codes are documented in volume 4 of the Intel
+ * Software Developer's Manual but the error_code field may contain one of
+ * the following driver defined software codes:
+ *
+ * +------+--------------------+
+ * | 0xFD | Software timeout |
+ * +------+--------------------+
+ * | 0xFE | Partial completion |
+ * +------+--------------------+
+ *
+ * Driver design choices
+ * ---------------------
+ *
+ * 1) The ACTIVATE_SCAN MSR allows for running any consecutive subrange of
+ * available tests. But the driver always tries to run all tests and only
+ * uses the subrange feature to restart an interrupted test.
+ *
+ * 2) Hardware allows for some number of cores to be tested in parallel.
+ * The driver does not make use of this, it only tests one core at a time.
+ *
+ * .. [#f1] https://github.com/intel/TBD
+ */
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>

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