[U-Boot] [PATCH v1 2/2] x86: zImage: Propagate acpi_rsdp_addr to kernel via boot parameters

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Wed Jan 10 17:40:15 UTC 2018


New field acpi_rsdp_addr, which has been introduced in boot protocol
v2.14 [1], in boot parameters tells kernel the exact address of RDSP
ACPI table. Knowing it increases robustness of the kernel by avoiding
in some cases traversal through a part of physical memory.
It will slightly reduce boot time by the same reason.

[1] See Linux kernel commit

  2f74cbf947f4 ("x86/boot: Add the ACPI RSDP address to struct setup_header::acpi_rdsp_addr")

for the details.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h |  1 +
 arch/x86/lib/acpi_table.c        |  7 +++++++
 arch/x86/lib/acpi_table.h        | 10 ++++++++++
 arch/x86/lib/zimage.c            |  6 ++++++
 4 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/lib/acpi_table.h

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h
index 48b138c6b0..90768a99ce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ struct setup_header {
 	__u64	pref_address;
 	__u32	init_size;
 	__u32	handover_offset;
+	__u64   acpi_rsdp_addr;
 } __attribute__((packed));
 
 struct sys_desc_table {
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/acpi_table.c b/arch/x86/lib/acpi_table.c
index 7b33cd371e..45bfc111ef 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/acpi_table.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/acpi_table.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <asm/mpspec.h>
 #include <asm/tables.h>
 #include <asm/arch/global_nvs.h>
+#include "acpi_table.h"
 
 /*
  * IASL compiles the dsdt entries and writes the hex values
@@ -27,6 +28,11 @@
  */
 extern const unsigned char AmlCode[];
 
+/*
+ * ACPI RSDP address to be used in boot parameters.
+ */
+unsigned long acpi_rsdp_addr;
+
 static void acpi_write_rsdp(struct acpi_rsdp *rsdp, struct acpi_rsdt *rsdt,
 			    struct acpi_xsdt *xsdt)
 {
@@ -460,6 +466,7 @@ ulong write_acpi_tables(ulong start)
 
 	debug("current = %x\n", current);
 
+	acpi_rsdp_addr = (unsigned long)rsdp;
 	debug("ACPI: done\n");
 
 	/* Don't touch ACPI hardware on HW reduced platforms */
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/acpi_table.h b/arch/x86/lib/acpi_table.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cece5d1420
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/acpi_table.h
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0
+ */
+
+#ifndef _X86_LIB_ACPI_TABLES_H
+#define _X86_LIB_ACPI_TABLES_H
+
+extern unsigned long acpi_rsdp_addr;
+
+#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c b/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c
index d224db4e07..eae26635b1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <asm/arch/timestamp.h>
 #endif
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include "acpi_table.h"
 
 DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
 
@@ -255,6 +256,11 @@ int setup_zimage(struct boot_params *setup_base, char *cmd_line, int auto_boot,
 		hdr->hardware_subarch = X86_SUBARCH_INTEL_MID;
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_GENERATE_ACPI_TABLE
+	if (bootproto >= 0x020e)
+		hdr->acpi_rsdp_addr = acpi_rsdp_addr;
+#endif
+
 	setup_video(&setup_base->screen_info);
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.15.1



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