// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/memblock.h> #include <asm/setup.h> #include <asm/bios_ebda.h> /* * This function reserves all conventional PC system BIOS related * firmware memory areas (some of which are data, some of which * are code), that must not be used by the kernel as available * RAM. * * The BIOS places the EBDA/XBDA at the top of conventional * memory, and usually decreases the reported amount of * conventional memory (int 0x12) too. * * This means that as a first approximation on most systems we can * guess the reserved BIOS area by looking at the low BIOS RAM size * value and assume that everything above that value (up to 1MB) is * reserved. * * But life in firmware country is not that simple: * * - This code also contains a quirk for Dell systems that neglect * to reserve the EBDA area in the 'RAM size' value ... * * - The same quirk also avoids a problem with the AMD768MPX * chipset: reserve a page before VGA to prevent PCI prefetch * into it (errata #56). (Usually the page is reserved anyways, * unless you have no PS/2 mouse plugged in.) * * - Plus paravirt systems don't have a reliable value in the * 'BIOS RAM size' pointer we can rely on, so we must quirk * them too. * * Due to those various problems this function is deliberately * very conservative and tries to err on the side of reserving * too much, to not risk reserving too little. * * Losing a small amount of memory in the bottom megabyte is * rarely a problem, as long as we have enough memory to install * the SMP bootup trampoline which *must* be in this area. * * Using memory that is in use by the BIOS or by some DMA device * the BIOS didn't shut down *is* a big problem to the kernel, * obviously. */ #define BIOS_RAM_SIZE_KB_PTR 0x413 #define BIOS_START_MIN 0x20000U /* 128K, less than this is insane */ #define BIOS_START_MAX 0x9f000U /* 640K, absolute maximum */ void __init reserve_bios_regions(void) { unsigned int bios_start, ebda_start; /* * NOTE: In a paravirtual environment the BIOS reserved * area is absent. We'll just have to assume that the * paravirt case can handle memory setup correctly, * without our help. */ if (!x86_platform.legacy.reserve_bios_regions) return; /* * BIOS RAM size is encoded in kilobytes, convert it * to bytes to get a first guess at where the BIOS * firmware area starts: */ bios_start = *(unsigned short *)__va(BIOS_RAM_SIZE_KB_PTR); bios_start <<= 10; /* * If bios_start is less than 128K, assume it is bogus * and bump it up to 640K. Similarly, if bios_start is above 640K, * don't trust it. */ if (bios_start < BIOS_START_MIN || bios_start > BIOS_START_MAX) bios_start = BIOS_START_MAX; /* Get the start address of the EBDA page: */ ebda_start = get_bios_ebda(); /* * If the EBDA start address is sane and is below the BIOS region, * then also reserve everything from the EBDA start address up to * the BIOS region. */ if (ebda_start >= BIOS_START_MIN && ebda_start < bios_start) bios_start = ebda_start; /* Reserve all memory between bios_start and the 1MB mark: */ memblock_reserve(bios_start, 0x100000 - bios_start); }