Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 May 2015 13:53:46 +0100 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm64: support ACPI tables outside of kernel RAM |
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 08:46:02AM -0400, Mark Salter wrote: > On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 11:34 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > OK, so my preferred options, in this order: > > > > 1. Change the core ACPI kernel code to distinguish between mapping I/O > > or RAM (could be as simple as acpi_map not using acpi_os_ioremap but > > another API). I guess the code knows when it plans to map tables or > > I/O registers > > > > 2. If the above is not possible, add the extra checks as per Mark's > > patch but I would rather call this resource "UEFI RAM" than "ACPI", > > it's not really ACPI specific. > > Actually, it is ACPI specific. The patch only registers resources for > EfiACPIReclaimMemory and EfiACPIMemoryNVS regions which are also > marked as cacheable. On x86 these show up in /proc/iomem as > "ACPI Tables" and "ACPI Non-volatile Storage". I used "ACPI RAM" to > avoid having to search for two strings.
My point is more about UEFI describing the entire RAM while the kernel command line restricts it via "mem=". In this case, the "System RAM" resources is reduced as well but it does not necessarily mean that the rest of the RAM is only used by ACPI.
-- Catalin
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