[PATCH v3 14/30] efi_loader: Allocate and write ACPI tables

Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Thu Sep 19 14:39:46 CEST 2024


On 11.09.24 08:24, Patrick Rudolph wrote:
> Allocate memory for ACPI tables inside the efi_loader and write out
> the tables similar to SMBIOS tables. When ACPI is enabled and wasn't
> installed in other places, install the ACPI table in EFI. Since EFI
> is necessary to pass the ACPI table location when FDT isn't used,
> there's no need to install it separately.
>
> When CONFIG_BLOBLIST_TABLES is set the tables will be stored in a
> bloblist. The tables are still passed to the OS using EFI.
>
> This allows non x86 platforms to boot using ACPI only in case the
> EFI loader is being used.
>
> TEST: Booted QEMU SBSA (no QFW) using EFI and ACPI only.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph at 9elements.com>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

Could you, please, describe how QEMU SBSA is passing the ACPI table to
U-Boot and where you convert this to a bloblist. I could not find this
in patches 1-13.

Please, provide a test that we can run on our CI.

Best regards

Heinrich

> ---
> Changelog v3:
> - Drop memalign and use efi_allocate_pages
> - Use log_debug instead of debug
> - Clarify commit message
> - Skip writing ACPI tables on sandbox
> - Rename function
> - Add function comment
> ---
>   lib/efi_loader/efi_acpi.c        | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   test/py/tests/test_event_dump.py |  1 +
>   2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_acpi.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_acpi.c
> index 67bd7f8ca2..9d38d0060c 100644
> --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_acpi.c
> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_acpi.c
> @@ -6,15 +6,23 @@
>    */
>
>   #include <efi_loader.h>
> -#include <log.h>
> -#include <mapmem.h>
>   #include <acpi/acpi_table.h>
>   #include <asm/global_data.h>
> +#include <asm/io.h>
> +#include <bloblist.h>
> +#include <linux/sizes.h>
> +#include <linux/log2.h>
> +#include <log.h>
> +#include <malloc.h>
> +#include <mapmem.h>
>
>   DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
>
>   static const efi_guid_t acpi_guid = EFI_ACPI_TABLE_GUID;
>
> +enum {
> +	TABLE_SIZE	= SZ_64K,
> +};
>   /*
>    * Install the ACPI table as a configuration table.
>    *
> @@ -47,3 +55,71 @@ efi_status_t efi_acpi_register(void)
>   	return efi_install_configuration_table(&acpi_guid,
>   					       (void *)(ulong)addr);
>   }
> +
> +/*
> + * Allocate memory for ACPI tables and write ACPI tables to the
> + * allocated buffer.
> + *
> + * Return:	status code
> + */
> +static int alloc_write_acpi_tables(void)
> +{
> +	u64 table_addr, table_end;
> +	u64 new_acpi_addr = 0;
> +	efi_uintn_t pages;
> +	efi_status_t ret;
> +	void *addr;
> +
> +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERATE_ACPI_TABLE))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86) ||
> +	    IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_QFW_ACPI) ||
> +	    IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SANDBOX)) {
> +		log_debug("Skipping writing ACPI tables as already done\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Align the table to a 4KB boundary to keep EFI happy */
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BLOBLIST_TABLES)) {
> +		addr = bloblist_add(BLOBLISTT_ACPI_TABLES, TABLE_SIZE,
> +				    ilog2(SZ_4K));
> +
> +		if (!addr)
> +			return log_msg_ret("mem", -ENOMEM);
> +	} else {
> +		pages = efi_size_in_pages(TABLE_SIZE);
> +
> +		ret = efi_allocate_pages(EFI_ALLOCATE_ANY_PAGES,
> +					 EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY,
> +					 pages, &new_acpi_addr);
> +		if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
> +			return log_msg_ret("mem", -ENOMEM);
> +
> +		addr = (void *)(uintptr_t)new_acpi_addr;
> +	}
> +
> +	table_addr = virt_to_phys(addr);
> +
> +	gd->arch.table_start_high = table_addr;
> +
> +	table_end = write_acpi_tables(table_addr);
> +	if (!table_end) {
> +		log_err("Can't create ACPI configuration table\n");
> +		return -EINTR;
> +	}
> +
> +	log_debug("- wrote 'acpi' to %llx, end %llx\n", table_addr, table_end);
> +	if (table_end - table_addr > TABLE_SIZE) {
> +		log_err("Out of space for configuration tables: need %llx, have %x\n",
> +			table_end - table_addr, TABLE_SIZE);
> +		return log_msg_ret("acpi", -ENOSPC);
> +	}
> +	gd->arch.table_end_high = table_end;
> +
> +	log_debug("- done writing tables\n");
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +EVENT_SPY_SIMPLE(EVT_LAST_STAGE_INIT, alloc_write_acpi_tables);
> diff --git a/test/py/tests/test_event_dump.py b/test/py/tests/test_event_dump.py
> index e282c67335..459bfa26bb 100644
> --- a/test/py/tests/test_event_dump.py
> +++ b/test/py/tests/test_event_dump.py
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ def test_event_dump(u_boot_console):
>   --------------------  ------------------------------  ------------------------------
>   EVT_FT_FIXUP          bootmeth_vbe_ft_fixup           .*boot/vbe_request.c:.*
>   EVT_FT_FIXUP          bootmeth_vbe_simple_ft_fixup    .*boot/vbe_simple_os.c:.*
> +EVT_LAST_STAGE_INIT   alloc_write_acpi_tables         .*lib/efi_loader/efi_acpi.c:.*
>   EVT_LAST_STAGE_INIT   install_smbios_table            .*lib/efi_loader/efi_smbios.c:.*
>   EVT_MISC_INIT_F       sandbox_early_getopt_check      .*arch/sandbox/cpu/start.c:.*
>   EVT_TEST              h_adder_simple                  .*test/common/event.c:'''



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