Xen PVH guests receive the address of the RSDP table from Xen. In order
to support booting a Xen PVH guest via Grub2 using the standard x86
boot entry we need a way for Grub2 to pass the RSDP address to the
kernel.
For this purpose expand the struct setup_header to hold the physical
address of the RSDP address. Being zero means it isn't specified and
has to be located the legacy way (searching through low memory or
EBDA).
While documenting the new setup_header layout and protocol version
2.14 add the missing documentation of protocol version 2.13.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
V3: fix commit message and some documentation bits (Ingo Molnar)
---
Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/boot/header.S | 6 +++++-
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
index 5e9b826b5f62..cec112909c35 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ Protocol 2.12: (Kernel 3.8) Added the xloadflags field and extension fields
to struct boot_params for loading bzImage and ramdisk
above 4G in 64bit.
+Protocol 2.13: (Kernel 3.14) Support 32- and 64-bit flags being set in
+ xloadflags to support booting a 64-bit kernel from 32-bit
+ EFI
+
+Protocol 2.14 (Kernel 4.16) Added acpi_rsdp_addr holding the physical
+ address of the ACPI RSDP table.
+
**** MEMORY LAYOUT
The traditional memory map for the kernel loader, used for Image or
@@ -197,6 +204,7 @@ Offset Proto Name Meaning
0258/8 2.10+ pref_address Preferred loading address
0260/4 2.10+ init_size Linear memory required during initialization
0264/4 2.11+ handover_offset Offset of handover entry point
+0268/8 2.14+ acpi_rsdp_addr Physical address of RSDP table
(1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the
real value is 4.
@@ -744,6 +752,17 @@ Offset/size: 0x264/4
See EFI HANDOVER PROTOCOL below for more details.
+Field name: acpi_rsdp_addr
+Type: write
+Offset/size: 0x268/8
+Protocol: 2.14+
+
+ This field can be set by the boot loader to tell the kernel the
+ physical address of the ACPI RSDP table.
+
+ A value of 0 indicates the kernel should fall back to the standard
+ methods to locate the RSDP.
+
**** THE IMAGE CHECKSUM
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
index 850b8762e889..4c881c850125 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ _start:
# Part 2 of the header, from the old setup.S
.ascii "HdrS" # header signature
- .word 0x020d # header version number (>= 0x0105)
+ .word 0x020e # header version number (>= 0x0105)
# or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail)
.globl realmode_swtch
realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG
@@ -558,6 +558,10 @@ pref_address: .quad LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR # preferred load addr
init_size: .long INIT_SIZE # kernel initialization size
handover_offset: .long 0 # Filled in by build.c
+acpi_rsdp_addr: .quad 0 # 64-bit physical pointer to the
+ # ACPI RSDP table, added with
+ # version 2.14
+
# End of setup header #####################################################
.section ".entrytext", "ax"
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
index afdd5ae0fcc4..5742e433e93e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ struct setup_header {
__u64 pref_address;
__u32 init_size;
__u32 handover_offset;
+ __u64 acpi_rsdp_addr;
} __attribute__((packed));
struct sys_desc_table {
--
2.12.3
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