/* * 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 */
/* * 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 = *(unsignedshort *)__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);
}
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