On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 04:20, Chiu, Chasel <chasel.c...@intel.com> wrote:
>
>
> Just sharing some usage examples from UEFI/EDK2 scenario.
> To support ACPI S4/Hibernation, memory map must be consistent before entering 
> and after resuming from S4, in this case payload may need to know previous 
> memory map from bootloader (currently generic payload cannot access 
> platform/bootloader specific non-volatile data, thus could not save/restore 
> memory map information)

So how would EDK2 reconstruct the entire EFI memory map from just
these unannotated /reserved-memory nodes? The EFI memory map contains
much more information than that, and all of it has to match the
pre-hibernate situation, right? Can you given an example?

> Another usage is to support binary model which generic payload is a prebuilt 
> binary compatible for all platforms/configurations, however the payload 
> default memory map might not always work for all the configurations and we 
> want to allow bootloader to override payload default memory map without 
> recompiling.
>

Agreed. But can you explain how a EDK2 payload might make meaningful
use of 'runtime-code' regions provided via DT  by the non-EDK2
platform init? Can you give an example?

> Under below assumption:
>         FDT OS impact has been evaluated and taken care by relevant 
> experts/stakeholders.
> Reviewed-by: Chasel Chiu <chasel.c...@intel.com>
>

I am sorry but I don't know what 'FDT OS impact' means. We are talking
about a firmware-to-firmware abstraction that has the potential to
leak into the OS visible interface.

I am a maintainer in the Tianocore project myself, so it would help if
you could explain who these relevant experts and stakeholders are. Was
this discussed on the edk2-devel mailing list? If so, apologies for
missing it but I may not have been cc'ed perhaps?


>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 12:43 PM
> > To: devicet...@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>; Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org>;
> > Tan, Lean Sheng <sheng....@9elements.com>; lkml <linux-
> > ker...@vger.kernel.org>; Dhaval Sharma <dha...@rivosinc.com>; Brune,
> > Maximilian <maximilian.br...@9elements.com>; Yunhui Cui
> > <cuiyun...@bytedance.com>; Dong, Guo <guo.d...@intel.com>; Tom Rini
> > <tr...@konsulko.com>; ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com>; Guo, Gua
> > <gua....@intel.com>; Chiu, Chasel <chasel.c...@intel.com>; linux-
> > a...@vger.kernel.org; U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>; Ard
> > Biesheuvel <a...@kernel.org>; Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> > Subject: [PATCH v7 2/2] schemas: Add some common reserved-memory usages
> >
> > It is common to split firmware into 'Platform Init', which does the initial 
> > hardware
> > setup and a "Payload" which selects the OS to be booted.
> > Thus an handover interface is required between these two pieces.
> >
> > Where UEFI boot-time services are not available, but UEFI firmware is 
> > present on
> > either side of this interface, information about memory usage and 
> > attributes must
> > be presented to the "Payload" in some form.
> >
> > This aims to provide an small schema addition for the memory mapping needed
> > to keep these two pieces working together well.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v7:
> > - Rename acpi-reclaim to acpi
> > - Drop individual mention of when memory can be reclaimed
> > - Rewrite the item descriptions
> > - Add back the UEFI text (with trepidation)
> >
> > Changes in v6:
> > - Drop mention of UEFI
> > - Use compatible strings instead of node names
> >
> > Changes in v5:
> > - Drop the memory-map node (should have done that in v4)
> > - Tidy up schema a bit
> >
> > Changes in v4:
> > - Make use of the reserved-memory node instead of creating a new one
> >
> > Changes in v3:
> > - Reword commit message again
> > - cc a lot more people, from the FFI patch
> > - Split out the attributes into the /memory nodes
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - Reword commit message
> >
> >  .../reserved-memory/common-reserved.yaml      | 71 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 71 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 dtschema/schemas/reserved-memory/common-
> > reserved.yaml
> >
> > diff --git a/dtschema/schemas/reserved-memory/common-reserved.yaml
> > b/dtschema/schemas/reserved-memory/common-reserved.yaml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..f7fbdfd
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/dtschema/schemas/reserved-memory/common-reserved.yaml
> > @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause %YAML 1.2
> > +---
> > +$id:
> > +http://devicetree.org/schemas/reserved-memory/common-reserved.yaml#
> > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> > +
> > +title: Common memory reservations
> > +
> > +description: |
> > +  Specifies that the reserved memory region can be used for the purpose
> > +  indicated by its compatible string.
> > +
> > +  Clients may reuse this reserved memory if they understand what it is
> > + for,  subject to the notes below.
> > +
> > +maintainers:
> > +  - Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> > +
> > +allOf:
> > +  - $ref: reserved-memory.yaml
> > +
> > +properties:
> > +  compatible:
> > +    description: |
> > +      This describes some common memory reservations, with the compatible
> > +      string indicating what it is used for:
> > +
> > +         acpi: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) tables
> > +         acpi-nvs: ACPI Non-Volatile-Sleeping Memory (NVS). This is 
> > reserved by
> > +           the firmware for its use and is required to be saved and 
> > restored
> > +           across an NVS sleep
> > +         boot-code: Contains code used for booting which is not needed by 
> > the OS
> > +         boot-code: Contains data used for booting which is not needed by 
> > the OS
> > +         runtime-code: Contains code used for interacting with the system 
> > when
> > +           running the OS
> > +         runtime-data: Contains data used for interacting with the system 
> > when
> > +           running the OS
> > +
> > +    enum:
> > +      - acpi
> > +      - acpi-nvs
> > +      - boot-code
> > +      - boot-data
> > +      - runtime-code
> > +      - runtime-data
> > +
> > +  reg:
> > +    description: region of memory that is reserved for the purpose 
> > indicated
> > +      by the compatible string.
> > +
> > +required:
> > +  - reg
> > +
> > +unevaluatedProperties: false
> > +
> > +examples:
> > +  - |
> > +    reserved-memory {
> > +        #address-cells = <1>;
> > +        #size-cells = <1>;
> > +
> > +        reserved@12340000 {
> > +            compatible = "boot-code";
> > +            reg = <0x12340000 0x00800000>;
> > +        };
> > +
> > +        reserved@43210000 {
> > +            compatible = "boot-data";
> > +            reg = <0x43210000 0x00800000>;
> > +        };
> > +    };
> > --
> > 2.42.0.515.g380fc7ccd1-goog
>

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