[PATCH v3 38/62] arm/acpi: Add placeholder for efi and acpi load address

Julien Grall julien.grall at citrix.com
Tue Nov 17 03:58:30 PST 2015


Hi Shannon,

On 17/11/15 09:40, shannon.zhao at linaro.org wrote:
> From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao at linaro.org>
> 
> EFI table, memory description table and some of acpi tables will be
> placed after DOM0 memory space. Add placeholder for the starting address
> for loading in DOM0 and the size of new added tables. Also add a
> placeholder to store the new created tables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Parth Dixit <parth.dixit at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao at linaro.org>
> ---
>  xen/include/asm-arm/domain.h | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/include/asm-arm/domain.h b/xen/include/asm-arm/domain.h
> index 1e61f30..91272e5 100644
> --- a/xen/include/asm-arm/domain.h
> +++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/domain.h
> @@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ struct arch_domain
>      } vuart;
>  
>      unsigned int evtchn_irq;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
> +    void *efi_acpi_table;
> +    paddr_t efi_acpi_gpa;
> +    paddr_t efi_acpi_len;
> +#endif

Why do you need this in the arch_domain? AFAICT those 3 variables should
only be used while building DOM0, so a better place would be in struct
kernel_info (see xen/arch/arm/kernel.h).

>  }  __cacheline_aligned;
>  
>  struct arch_vcpu
> 


Regards,


-- 
Julien Grall



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