linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 05/21] ARM64 / ACPI: Get RSDP and ACPI boot-time tables

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Date:	Thu, 5 Mar 2015 10:10:16 -0800
From:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@....com>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>,
	Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinc@...eaurora.org>,
	suravee.suthikulpanit@....com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org, Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 05/21] ARM64 / ACPI: Get RSDP and ACPI boot-time tables

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:39:45PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> From: Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>
> 
> As we want to get ACPI tables to parse and then use the information
> for system initialization, we should get the RSDP (Root System
> Description Pointer) first, it then locates Extended Root Description
> Table (XSDT) which contains all the 64-bit physical address that
> pointer to other boot-time tables.
> 
> Introduce acpi.c and its related head file in this patch to provide
> fundamental needs of extern variables and functions for ACPI core,
> and then get boot-time tables as needed.
>   - asm/acenv.h for arch specific ACPICA environments and
>     implementation, It is needed unconditionally by ACPI core;
>   - asm/acpi.h for arch specific variables and functions needed by
>     ACPI driver core;
>   - acpi.c for ARM64 related ACPI implementation for ACPI driver
>     core;
> 
> acpi_boot_table_init() is introduced to get RSDP and boot-time tables,
> it will be called in setup_arch() before paging_init(), so we should
> use eary_memremap() mechanism here to get the RSDP and all the table
> pointers.
> 
> FADT Major.Minor version was introduced in ACPI 5.1, it is the same
> as ACPI version.
> 
> In ACPI 5.1, some major gaps are fixed for ARM, such as updates in
> MADT table for GIC and SMP init, without those updates, we can not
> get the MPIDR for SMP init, and GICv2/3 related init information, so
> we can't boot arm64 ACPI properly with table versions predating 5.1.
> 
> If firmware provides ACPI tables with ACPI version less than 5.1,
> OS has no way to retrieve the configuration data that is necessary
> to init SMP boot protocol and the GIC properly, so disable ACPI if
> we get an FADT table with version less that 5.1 when acpi_boot_table_init()
> called.
> 
> CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> CC: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
> Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>
> Tested-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@...wei.com>
> Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@...hat.com>
> Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>
> Tested-by: Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
> Tested-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@...ium.com>
> Acked-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@...ium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>

As long as it goes in together with later patches that adjust what's
enabled by default:

Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>


-Olof
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