Re: [PATCH 1/2] efi: dmi: add support for SMBIOS 3.0 UEFI configuration table

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 06:35:42PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> This adds support to the UEFI side for detecting the presence of
> a SMBIOS 3.0 64-bit entry point. This allows the actual SMBIOS
> structure table to reside at a physical offset over 4 GB, which
> cannot be supported by the legacy SMBIOS 32-bit entry point.
> 
> Since the firmware can legally provide both entry points, store
> the SMBIOS 3.0 entry point in a separate variable, and let the
> DMI decoding layer decide which one will be used.
> 
> Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 4 ++++
>  include/linux/efi.h        | 6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> index 64ecbb501c50..3947caccff2d 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct efi __read_mostly efi = {
>  	.acpi       = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
>  	.acpi20     = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
>  	.smbios     = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
> +	.smbios3    = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
>  	.sal_systab = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
>  	.boot_info  = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
>  	.hcdp       = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
> @@ -64,6 +65,8 @@ static ssize_t systab_show(struct kobject *kobj,
>  		str += sprintf(str, "ACPI=0x%lx\n", efi.acpi);
>  	if (efi.smbios != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR)
>  		str += sprintf(str, "SMBIOS=0x%lx\n", efi.smbios);
> +	if (efi.smbios3 != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR)
> +		str += sprintf(str, "SMBIOS3=0x%lx\n", efi.smbios3);

The specification also refers to it as the less version-sensitive
"64-bit entry point". Would it make sense to instead call it
SMBIOS64/efi.smbios64?

>  	if (efi.hcdp != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR)
>  		str += sprintf(str, "HCDP=0x%lx\n", efi.hcdp);
>  	if (efi.boot_info != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR)
> @@ -238,6 +241,7 @@ static __initdata efi_config_table_type_t common_tables[] = {
>  	{MPS_TABLE_GUID, "MPS", &efi.mps},
>  	{SAL_SYSTEM_TABLE_GUID, "SALsystab", &efi.sal_systab},
>  	{SMBIOS_TABLE_GUID, "SMBIOS", &efi.smbios},
> +	{SMBIOS3_TABLE_GUID, "SMBIOS 3.0", &efi.smbios3},
>  	{UGA_IO_PROTOCOL_GUID, "UGA", &efi.uga},
>  	{NULL_GUID, NULL, NULL},
>  };
> diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
> index 45cb4ffdea62..8760b9aed2bb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/efi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/efi.h
> @@ -542,6 +542,9 @@ void efi_native_runtime_setup(void);
>  #define SMBIOS_TABLE_GUID    \
>      EFI_GUID(  0xeb9d2d31, 0x2d88, 0x11d3, 0x9a, 0x16, 0x0, 0x90, 0x27, 0x3f, 0xc1, 0x4d )
>  
> +#define SMBIOS3_TABLE_GUID    \
> +    EFI_GUID(  0xf2fd1544, 0x9794, 0x4a2c, 0x99, 0x2e, 0xe5, 0xbb, 0xcf, 0x20, 0xe3, 0x94 )
> +
>  #define SAL_SYSTEM_TABLE_GUID    \
>      EFI_GUID(  0xeb9d2d32, 0x2d88, 0x11d3, 0x9a, 0x16, 0x0, 0x90, 0x27, 0x3f, 0xc1, 0x4d )
>  
> @@ -805,7 +808,8 @@ extern struct efi {
>  	unsigned long mps;		/* MPS table */
>  	unsigned long acpi;		/* ACPI table  (IA64 ext 0.71) */
>  	unsigned long acpi20;		/* ACPI table  (ACPI 2.0) */
> -	unsigned long smbios;		/* SM BIOS table */
> +	unsigned long smbios;		/* SM BIOS table (32 bit entry point) */
> +	unsigned long smbios3;		/* SM BIOS table (64 bit entry point) */
>  	unsigned long sal_systab;	/* SAL system table */
>  	unsigned long boot_info;	/* boot info table */
>  	unsigned long hcdp;		/* HCDP table */
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
> 

Again, Apart from the one comment:
Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx>
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