[PATCH] arm64: support ACPI tables outside of kernel RAM

[Catalin Marinas]

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