Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>

On 2015-09-01 14:43:10, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> The logic we have in place for i440fx does not work reliably on q35. For
> example, if the guest has 2GB of RAM, we allow the PCI root bridge driver
> to allocate the legacy video RAM BAR from the [2048 MB, 2816 MB] range,
> which falls strictly outside of the Q35 PCI host MMIO aperture that QEMU
> configures, and advertizes in ACPI.
> 
> In turn, PCI BARs that exist outside of the PCI host aperture that is
> exposed in ACPI break Windows guests.
> 
> Allocating PCI MMIO resources at or above 3GB on Q35 ensures that we stay
> within QEMU's aperture. (See the "w32.begin" assignments in
> "hw/pci-host/q35.c".) Furthermore, in pc_q35_init() (file
> "hw/i386/pc_q35.c"), QEMU ensures that the low RAM never "leaks" above
> 3GB.
> 
> The i440fx logic is left unchanged.
> 
> The Windows guest malfunction on Q35 was reported by Jon Panozzo of Lime
> Technology, Inc.
> 
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>
> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jon Panozzo <j...@lime-technology.com>
> Cc: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <so...@cmu.edu>
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/Platform.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/Platform.c b/OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/Platform.c
> index 9970d14..f6e2188 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/Platform.c
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/Platform.c
> @@ -204,7 +204,20 @@ MemMapInitialization (
>  
>    if (!mXen) {
>      UINT32  TopOfLowRam;
> +    UINT32  PciBase;
> +
>      TopOfLowRam = GetSystemMemorySizeBelow4gb ();
> +    if (mHostBridgeDevId == INTEL_Q35_MCH_DEVICE_ID) {
> +      //
> +      // A 3GB base will always fall into Q35's 32-bit PCI host aperture,
> +      // regardless of the Q35 MMCONFIG BAR. Correspondingly, QEMU never lets
> +      // the RAM below 4 GB exceed it.
> +      //
> +      PciBase = BASE_2GB + BASE_1GB;
> +      ASSERT (TopOfLowRam <= PciBase);
> +    } else {
> +      PciBase = (TopOfLowRam < BASE_2GB) ? BASE_2GB : TopOfLowRam;
> +    }
>  
>      //
>      // address       purpose   size
> @@ -219,8 +232,7 @@ MemMapInitialization (
>      // 0xFED20000    gap                          896 KB
>      // 0xFEE00000    LAPIC                          1 MB
>      //
> -    AddIoMemoryRangeHob (TopOfLowRam < BASE_2GB ?
> -                         BASE_2GB : TopOfLowRam, 0xFC000000);
> +    AddIoMemoryRangeHob (PciBase, 0xFC000000);
>      AddIoMemoryBaseSizeHob (0xFEC00000, SIZE_4KB);
>      AddIoMemoryBaseSizeHob (0xFED00000, SIZE_1KB);
>      if (mHostBridgeDevId == INTEL_Q35_MCH_DEVICE_ID) {
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
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