x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header

Xen PVH guests receive the address of the RSDP table from Xen. In order
to support booting a Xen PVH guest via Grub2 using the standard x86
boot entry we need a way for Grub2 to pass the RSDP address to the
kernel.

For this purpose expand the struct setup_header to hold the physical
address of the RSDP address. Being zero means it isn't specified and
has to be located the legacy way (searching through low memory or
EBDA).

While documenting the new setup_header layout and protocol version
2.14 add the missing documentation of protocol version 2.13.

There are Grub2 versions in several distros with a downstream patch
violating the boot protocol by writing past the end of setup_header.
This requires another update of the boot protocol to enable the kernel
to distinguish between a specified RSDP address and one filled with
garbage by such a broken Grub2.

From protocol 2.14 on Grub2 will write the version it is supporting
(but never a higher value than found to be supported by the kernel)
ored with 0x8000 to the version field of setup_header. This enables
the kernel to know up to which field Grub2 has written information
to. All fields after that are supposed to be clobbered.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181010061456.22238-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
index 5e9b826b5f62..7727db8f94bc 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,18 @@ Protocol 2.12:	(Kernel 3.8) Added the xloadflags field and extension fields
 	 	to struct boot_params for loading bzImage and ramdisk
 		above 4G in 64bit.
 
+Protocol 2.13:	(Kernel 3.14) Support 32- and 64-bit flags being set in
+		xloadflags to support booting a 64-bit kernel from 32-bit
+		EFI
+
+Protocol 2.14:	(Kernel 4.20) Added acpi_rsdp_addr holding the physical
+		address of the ACPI RSDP table.
+		The bootloader updates version with:
+		0x8000 | min(kernel-version, bootloader-version)
+		kernel-version being the protocol version supported by
+		the kernel and bootloader-version the protocol version
+		supported by the bootloader.
+
 **** MEMORY LAYOUT
 
 The traditional memory map for the kernel loader, used for Image or
@@ -197,6 +209,7 @@ Offset	Proto	Name		Meaning
 0258/8	2.10+	pref_address	Preferred loading address
 0260/4	2.10+	init_size	Linear memory required during initialization
 0264/4	2.11+	handover_offset	Offset of handover entry point
+0268/8	2.14+	acpi_rsdp_addr	Physical address of RSDP table
 
 (1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the
     real value is 4.
@@ -309,7 +322,7 @@ Protocol:	2.00+
   Contains the magic number "HdrS" (0x53726448).
 
 Field name:	version
-Type:		read
+Type:		modify
 Offset/size:	0x206/2
 Protocol:	2.00+
 
@@ -317,6 +330,12 @@ Protocol:	2.00+
   e.g. 0x0204 for version 2.04, and 0x0a11 for a hypothetical version
   10.17.
 
+  Up to protocol version 2.13 this information is only read by the
+  bootloader. From protocol version 2.14 onwards the bootloader will
+  write the used protocol version or-ed with 0x8000 to the field. The
+  used protocol version will be the minimum of the supported protocol
+  versions of the bootloader and the kernel.
+
 Field name:	realmode_swtch
 Type:		modify (optional)
 Offset/size:	0x208/4
@@ -744,6 +763,17 @@ Offset/size:	0x264/4
 
   See EFI HANDOVER PROTOCOL below for more details.
 
+Field name:	acpi_rsdp_addr
+Type:		write
+Offset/size:	0x268/8
+Protocol:	2.14+
+
+  This field can be set by the boot loader to tell the kernel the
+  physical address of the ACPI RSDP table.
+
+  A value of 0 indicates the kernel should fall back to the standard
+  methods to locate the RSDP.
+
 
 **** THE IMAGE CHECKSUM