Re: [RFC PATCH] OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe: lift 4 GB alloc limit for modern ACPI systems

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 06/01/17 13:22, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> ACPI supports architectures such as arm64, which did not exist when the
> original 32-bit ACPI 1.0 was introduced. These days, ACPI tables can all
> support 64-bit memory addresses, and so QEMU has been updated to emit
> 64-bit table and entry point types on arm64/mach-virt.

Do you have commit cb51ac2ffe36 ("hw/arm/virt: generate 64-bit
addressable ACPI objects", 2017-04-10) in mind?

> 
> For the UEFI side, this means we no longer have to serve allocation
> requests from the 32-bit addressable region. So lift this restriction
> when the platform has been configured without ACPI 1.0b support.
> 
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> ---
> 
> This is an RFC because this change breaks compatibility with older versions
> of QEMU. At the least, this means I should sit on this patch for another
> while, but perhaps it also means we need some runtime logic to detect which
> QEMU we are dealing with? Comments welcome.
> 
>  OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/AcpiPlatformDxe.inf          |  3 +++
>  OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/QemuFwCfgAcpi.c              | 13 +++++++++++--
>  OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/QemuFwCfgAcpiPlatformDxe.inf |  3 +++
>  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

I guess by compat breakage, you mean the case when new ArmVirtQemu (with
this patch) is booted on old QEMU (which lacks commit cb51ac2ffe36) --
the 64-bit allocation addresses might not fit into the 4-byte fields
generated by QEMU.

Since your QEMU patch (which I did ACK), I've given more thought to the
QEMU_LOADER_ALLOCATE linker/loader command. See bullet (68) in:


http://mid.mail-archive.com/accf8880-f4b0-85f1-9f33-4103c8c26d7a@redhat.com

There are now two reasons to extend the Zone field's meaning:

- The first reason is that the most significant bit in Zone could be
repurposed to suppress the SDT header probing implemented in
OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe, in the Process2ndPassCmdAddPointer() function.

- The second reason is that a new value in Zone (with the msb masked
off), say QemuLoaderAlloc64Bit=3, could be used to lift the 32-bit
allocation limit explicitly.

In QEMU, we could tie both of these extensions to new machine types.

The result would be:

  firmware  QEMU  QEMU machine type  result
  --------  ----  -----------------  -----------------------------------
  old       new   old                allocate blobs under 4GB
  old       new   new                breakage, but that's OK, we can
                                       require refreshed firmware for
                                       new machine types
  new       old   old                allocate blobs under 4GB
  new       new   old                allocate blobs under 4GB
  new       new   new                allocate blobs from 64-bit space

... I guess my proposal might be a bit unpolished (and certainly
diverges from your original QEMU commit cb51ac2ffe36), but at this
point, the need for further *explicit* hints in the ALLOC command is
just too obvious to pass them up.

Again, the first extension would be setting aside bit 7, to signify
"this blob contains no ACPI tables", and the second extension would be a
new zone value (3) to mean "allocate from 64-bit address space".

The first extension would be used by both x86 and arm machine types
(2.10+ only), and the second extension would only be used by 2.10+ arm
machine types.

What do you think? Can we discuss both of these Zone extensions on
qemu-devel as well? Adding qemu-devel, Shannon, Michael, Igor, Drew, and
Dongjiu Geng.

Thanks
Laszlo

> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/AcpiPlatformDxe.inf b/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/AcpiPlatformDxe.inf
> index 9a9b2e6bb2e5..9b883871bc23 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/AcpiPlatformDxe.inf
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/AcpiPlatformDxe.inf
> @@ -73,5 +73,8 @@ [Pcd]
>    gPcAtChipsetPkgTokenSpaceGuid.Pcd8259LegacyModeEdgeLevel
>    gUefiOvmfPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdOvmfFdBaseAddress
>  
> +[FixedPcd]
> +  gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdAcpiExposedTableVersions
> +
>  [Depex]
>    gEfiAcpiTableProtocolGuid
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/QemuFwCfgAcpi.c b/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/QemuFwCfgAcpi.c
> index 1bc5fe297a96..97632bc636c0 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/QemuFwCfgAcpi.c
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/QemuFwCfgAcpi.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>  #include <Library/PcdLib.h>
>  #include <Library/OrderedCollectionLib.h>
>  #include <IndustryStandard/Acpi.h>
> +#include <Protocol/AcpiSystemDescriptionTable.h>
>  
>  
>  //
> @@ -173,6 +174,7 @@ ProcessCmdAllocate (
>    UINTN                NumPages;
>    EFI_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS Address;
>    BLOB                 *Blob;
> +  EFI_ALLOCATE_TYPE    AllocType;
>  
>    if (Allocate->File[QEMU_LOADER_FNAME_SIZE - 1] != '\0') {
>      DEBUG ((EFI_D_ERROR, "%a: malformed file name\n", __FUNCTION__));
> @@ -192,9 +194,16 @@ ProcessCmdAllocate (
>      return Status;
>    }
>  
> +  if ((FixedPcdGet32 (PcdAcpiExposedTableVersions) &
> +       EFI_ACPI_TABLE_VERSION_1_0B) != 0) {
> +    Address = 0xFFFFFFFF;
> +    AllocType = AllocateMaxAddress;
> +  } else {
> +    AllocType = AllocateAnyPages;
> +  }
> +
>    NumPages = EFI_SIZE_TO_PAGES (FwCfgSize);
> -  Address = 0xFFFFFFFF;
> -  Status = gBS->AllocatePages (AllocateMaxAddress, EfiACPIMemoryNVS, NumPages,
> +  Status = gBS->AllocatePages (AllocType, EfiACPIMemoryNVS, NumPages,
>                    &Address);
>    if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
>      return Status;
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/QemuFwCfgAcpiPlatformDxe.inf b/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/QemuFwCfgAcpiPlatformDxe.inf
> index adc50cfd9f76..64db80dd9cbc 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/QemuFwCfgAcpiPlatformDxe.inf
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe/QemuFwCfgAcpiPlatformDxe.inf
> @@ -58,5 +58,8 @@ [Guids]
>  [Pcd]
>    gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdPciDisableBusEnumeration
>  
> +[FixedPcd]
> +  gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdAcpiExposedTableVersions
> +
>  [Depex]
>    gEfiAcpiTableProtocolGuid
>