[Qemu-devel] [qemu PATCH 4/7] hw/acpi/nvdimm: ask the firmware to allocate NVDIMM_DSM_MEM_FILE as NOACPI

[Laszlo Ersek]

The "etc/acpi/nvdimm-mem" fw_cfg blob is guaranteed not to contain ACPI
tables, so turning off the ACPI SDT header probe in OVMF is the right
thing to do.

SeaBIOS needs a patch for recognizing (and masking out) the
BIOS_LINKER_LOADER_ALLOC_CONTENT_NOACPI bit, but its behavior will not
change.

Regarding the allocation zone, we cannot relax that to 64-bit, because the
"MEMA" object (NVDIMM_ACPI_MEM_ADDR), into which the address of
"etc/acpi/nvdimm-mem" is patched, is only a DWORD.

Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <address@hidden>
Cc: Ben Warren <address@hidden>
Cc: Dongjiu Geng <address@hidden>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
Cc: Shannon Zhao <address@hidden>
Cc: Stefan Berger <address@hidden>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>
---

Notes:
    I don't know how to test this device, so I didn't. Help from the
    device's maintainer would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

 hw/acpi/nvdimm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/acpi/nvdimm.c b/hw/acpi/nvdimm.c
index 81bd0214fb3e..34b9a0f39a02 100644
--- a/hw/acpi/nvdimm.c
+++ b/hw/acpi/nvdimm.c
@@ -1263,11 +1263,11 @@ static void nvdimm_build_ssdt(GArray *table_offsets, 
GArray *table_data,
 
     bios_linker_loader_alloc(linker,
                              NVDIMM_DSM_MEM_FILE, dsm_dma_arrea,
                              sizeof(NvdimmDsmIn),
                              BIOS_LINKER_LOADER_ALLOC_ZONE_HIGH,
-                             BIOS_LINKER_LOADER_ALLOC_CONTENT_MIXED);
+                             BIOS_LINKER_LOADER_ALLOC_CONTENT_NOACPI);
     bios_linker_loader_add_pointer(linker,
         ACPI_BUILD_TABLE_FILE, mem_addr_offset, sizeof(uint32_t),
         NVDIMM_DSM_MEM_FILE, 0);
     build_header(linker, table_data,
         (void *)(table_data->data + nvdimm_ssdt),
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