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1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
2 #include <linux/kernel.h>
3 #include <linux/init.h>
4 #include <linux/memblock.h>
5 
6 #include <asm/setup.h>
7 #include <asm/bios_ebda.h>
8 
9 /*
10  * This function reserves all conventional PC system BIOS related
11  * firmware memory areas (some of which are data, some of which
12  * are code), that must not be used by the kernel as available
13  * RAM.
14  *
15  * The BIOS places the EBDA/XBDA at the top of conventional
16  * memory, and usually decreases the reported amount of
17  * conventional memory (int 0x12) too.
18  *
19  * This means that as a first approximation on most systems we can
20  * guess the reserved BIOS area by looking at the low BIOS RAM size
21  * value and assume that everything above that value (up to 1MB) is
22  * reserved.
23  *
24  * But life in firmware country is not that simple:
25  *
26  * - This code also contains a quirk for Dell systems that neglect
27  *   to reserve the EBDA area in the 'RAM size' value ...
28  *
29  * - The same quirk also avoids a problem with the AMD768MPX
30  *   chipset: reserve a page before VGA to prevent PCI prefetch
31  *   into it (errata #56). (Usually the page is reserved anyways,
32  *   unless you have no PS/2 mouse plugged in.)
33  *
34  * - Plus paravirt systems don't have a reliable value in the
35  *   'BIOS RAM size' pointer we can rely on, so we must quirk
36  *   them too.
37  *
38  * Due to those various problems this function is deliberately
39  * very conservative and tries to err on the side of reserving
40  * too much, to not risk reserving too little.
41  *
42  * Losing a small amount of memory in the bottom megabyte is
43  * rarely a problem, as long as we have enough memory to install
44  * the SMP bootup trampoline which *must* be in this area.
45  *
46  * Using memory that is in use by the BIOS or by some DMA device
47  * the BIOS didn't shut down *is* a big problem to the kernel,
48  * obviously.
49  */
50 
51 #define BIOS_RAM_SIZE_KB_PTR	0x413
52 
53 #define BIOS_START_MIN		0x20000U	/* 128K, less than this is insane */
54 #define BIOS_START_MAX		0x9f000U	/* 640K, absolute maximum */
55 
56 void __init reserve_bios_regions(void)
57 {
58 	unsigned int bios_start, ebda_start;
59 
60 	/*
61 	 * NOTE: In a paravirtual environment the BIOS reserved
62 	 * area is absent. We'll just have to assume that the
63 	 * paravirt case can handle memory setup correctly,
64 	 * without our help.
65 	 */
66 	if (!x86_platform.legacy.reserve_bios_regions)
67 		return;
68 
69 	/*
70 	 * BIOS RAM size is encoded in kilobytes, convert it
71 	 * to bytes to get a first guess at where the BIOS
72 	 * firmware area starts:
73 	 */
74 	bios_start = *(unsigned short *)__va(BIOS_RAM_SIZE_KB_PTR);
75 	bios_start <<= 10;
76 
77 	/*
78 	 * If bios_start is less than 128K, assume it is bogus
79 	 * and bump it up to 640K.  Similarly, if bios_start is above 640K,
80 	 * don't trust it.
81 	 */
82 	if (bios_start < BIOS_START_MIN || bios_start > BIOS_START_MAX)
83 		bios_start = BIOS_START_MAX;
84 
85 	/* Get the start address of the EBDA page: */
86 	ebda_start = get_bios_ebda();
87 
88 	/*
89 	 * If the EBDA start address is sane and is below the BIOS region,
90 	 * then also reserve everything from the EBDA start address up to
91 	 * the BIOS region.
92 	 */
93 	if (ebda_start >= BIOS_START_MIN && ebda_start < bios_start)
94 		bios_start = ebda_start;
95 
96 	/* Reserve all memory between bios_start and the 1MB mark: */
97 	memblock_reserve(bios_start, 0x100000 - bios_start);
98 }
99