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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:42:23 +0800
From: Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To: konrad.wilk@...cle.com, robert.moore@...el.com, lv.zheng@...el.com,
rjw@...k.pl, lenb@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu,
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prarit@...hat.com, zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com,
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"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
CC: x86@...nel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
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linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86, acpi: Move acpi_initrd_override() earlier.
Hi all,
This patch-set has not been fully tested. I sent them first for you
to review. Please comment if we can agree on this solution.
Thanks.:)
On 08/21/2013 06:15 PM, Tang Chen wrote:
> This patch-set aims to move acpi_initrd_override() earlier on x86.
> Some of the patches are from Yinghai's patch-set:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/14/561
>
> The difference between this patch-set and Yinghai's original patch-set are:
> 1. This patch-set doesn't split acpi_initrd_override(), but call it as a
> whole operation at early time.
> 2. Allocate memory from BRK to store override tables.
> (This idea is also from Yinghai.)
>
>
> [Current state]
>
> The current Linux kernel will initialize acpi tables like the following:
>
> 1. Find all acpi override table provided by users in initrd.
> (Linux allows users to override acpi tables in firmware, by specifying
> their own tables in initrd.)
>
> 2. Use acpica code to initialize acpi global root table list and install all
> tables into it. If any override tables exists, use it to override the one
> provided by firmware.
>
> Then others can parse these tables and get useful info.
>
> Both of the two steps happen after direct mapping page tables are setup.
>
> [Issues]
>
> In the current Linux kernel, the initialization of acpi tables is too late for
> new functionalities.
>
> We have some issues about this:
>
> * For memory hotplug, we need ACPI SRAT at early time to be aware of which memory
> ranges are hotpluggable, and prevent bootmem allocator from allocating memory
> for the kernel. (Kernel pages cannot be hotplugged because )
>
> * As suggested by Yinghai Lu<yinghai@...nel.org>, we should allocate page tables
> in local node. This also needs SRAT before direct mapping page tables are setup.
>
> * As mentioned by Toshi Kani<toshi.kani@...com>, ACPI SCPR/DBGP/DBG2 tables
> allow the OS to initialize serial console/debug ports at early boot time. The
> earlier it can be initialized, the better this feature will be. These tables
> are not currently used by Linux due to a licensing issue, but it could be
> addressed some time soon.
>
>
> [What are we doing]
>
> We are trying to initialize acip tables as early as possible. But Linux kernel
> allows users to override acpi tables by specifying their own tables in initrd.
> So we have to do acpi_initrd_override() earlier first.
>
>
> [About this patch-set]
>
> This patch-set aims to move acpi_initrd_override() as early as possible on x86.
> As suggested by Yinghai, we are trying to do it like this:
>
> On 32bit: do it in head_32.S, before paging is enabled. In this case, we can
> access initrd with physical address without page tables.
>
> On 64bit: do it in head_64.c, after paging is enabled but before direct mapping
> is setup.
>
> And also, acpi_initrd_override() needs to allocate memory for override tables.
> But at such an early time, there is no memory allocator works. So the basic idea
> from Yinghai is to use BRK. We will extend BRK 256KB in this patch-set.
>
>
> Tang Chen (6):
> x86, acpi: Move table_sigs[] to stack.
> x86, acpi, brk: Extend BRK 256KB to store acpi override tables.
> x86, brk: Make extend_brk() available with va/pa.
> x86, acpi: Make acpi_initrd_override() available with va or pa.
> x86, acpi, brk: Make early_alloc_acpi_override_tables_buf() available
> with va/pa.
> x86, acpi: Do acpi_initrd_override() earlier in head_32.S/head64.c.
>
> Yinghai Lu (2):
> x86: Make get_ramdisk_{image|size}() global.
> x86, microcode: Use get_ramdisk_{image|size}() in microcode handling.
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/dmi.h | 2 +-
> arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h | 11 +++-
> arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 4 +
> arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 4 +
> arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel_early.c | 8 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++------
> arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 6 +-
> arch/x86/xen/p2m.c | 27 ++++---
> drivers/acpi/osl.c | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> include/linux/acpi.h | 5 +-
> 12 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)
>
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