Re: [PATCH v9 5/8] x86/boot: Add get_acpi_rsdp() to parse RSDP in cmdlien from kexec

From: Baoquan He
Date: Sat Oct 20 2018 - 22:38:06 EST


On 10/17/18 at 06:20pm, Chao Fan wrote:
> If KEXEC write the RSDP pointer to cmdline, parse the cmdline
> and use it.
> Imitate from early_param of "acpi_rsdp".
>
> Signed-off-by: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c
> index 50fa65cf824d..37b1f4407be8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
> #include <linux/numa.h>
> #include <linux/acpi.h>
>
> +#define STATIC
> +#include <linux/decompress/mm.h>
> +
> /* Search EFI table for RSDP table. */
> static void efi_get_rsdp_addr(acpi_physical_address *rsdp_addr)
> {
> @@ -200,3 +203,23 @@ static void bios_get_rsdp_addr(acpi_physical_address *rsdp_addr)
> *rsdp_addr = (acpi_physical_address)address;
> }
> }
> +
> +static void get_acpi_rsdp(acpi_physical_address *rsdp_addr)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
> + unsigned long long res;
> + int len = 0;
> + char *val;
> +
> + val = malloc(20);

Why is the length 20? Defined a macro?

> + len = cmdline_find_option("acpi_rsdp", val, 20);
> +
> + if (len == -1)
> + return;
> +
> + if (len > 0) {
> + val[len] = 0;
> + *rsdp_addr = (acpi_physical_address)kstrtoull(val, 0, &res);
> + }
> +#endif
> +}
> --
> 2.17.2
>
>
>