[PATCH v3 09/13] x86/realmode: Make the location of the trampoline configurable

Ricardo Neri
2025-05-03T19:10:17Z

From: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com>

x86 CPUs boot in real mode. This mode uses 20-bit memory addresses (16-bit
registers plus 4-bit segment selectors). This implies that the trampoline
must reside under the 1MB memory boundary.

There are platforms in which the firmware boots the secondary CPUs,
switches them to long mode and transfers control to the kernel. An example
of such mechanism is the ACPI Multiprocessor Wakeup Structure.

In this scenario there is no restriction to locate the trampoline under 1MB
memory. Moreover, certain platforms (for example, Hyper-V VTL guests) may
not have memory available for allocation under 1MB.

Add a new member to struct x86_init_resources to specify the upper bound
for the location of the trampoline memory. Keep the default upper bound of
1MB to conserve the current behavior.

Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
---
Changes since v2:
- Edited the commit message for clarity.
- Minor tweaks to comments.
- Removed the option to not reserve the first 1MB of memory as it is
not needed.

Changes since v1:
- Added this patch using code that Thomas suggested:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87a5ho2q6x.ffs@tglx/
---
arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h | 3 +++
arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c | 3 +++
arch/x86/realmode/init.c | 7 +++----
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h
index 36698cc9fb44..e770ce507a87 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h
@@ -31,12 +31,15 @@ struct x86_init_mpparse {
* platform
* @memory_setup: platform specific memory setup
* @dmi_setup: platform specific DMI setup
+ * @realmode_limit: platform specific address limit for the real mode trampoline
+ * (default 1M)
*/
struct x86_init_resources {
void (*probe_roms)(void);
void (*reserve_resources)(void);
char *(*memory_setup)(void);
void (*dmi_setup)(void);
+ unsigned long realmode_limit;
};

/**
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c b/arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c
index 0a2bbd674a6d..a25fd7282811 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/acpi.h>
+#include <linux/sizes.h>

#include <asm/acpi.h>
#include <asm/bios_ebda.h>
@@ -69,6 +70,8 @@ struct x86_init_ops x86_init __initdata = {
.reserve_resources = reserve_standard_io_resources,
.memory_setup = e820__memory_setup_default,
.dmi_setup = dmi_setup,
+ /* Has to be under 1M so we can execute real-mode AP code. */
+ .realmode_limit = SZ_1M,
},

.mpparse = {
diff --git a/arch/x86/realmode/init.c b/arch/x86/realmode/init.c
index ed5c63c0b4e5..01155f995b2b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/realmode/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/realmode/init.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ void load_trampoline_pgtable(void)

void __init reserve_real_mode(void)
{
- phys_addr_t mem;
+ phys_addr_t mem, limit = x86_init.resources.realmode_limit;
size_t size = real_mode_size_needed();

if (!size)
@@ -54,10 +54,9 @@ void __init reserve_real_mode(void)

WARN_ON(slab_is_available());

- /* Has to be under 1M so we can execute real-mode AP code. */
- mem = memblock_phys_alloc_range(size, PAGE_SIZE, 0, 1<<20);
+ mem = memblock_phys_alloc_range(size, PAGE_SIZE, 0, limit);
if (!mem)
- pr_info("No sub-1M memory is available for the trampoline\n");
+ pr_info("No memory below %pa for the real-mode trampoline\n", &limit);
else
set_real_mode_mem(mem);

--
2.43.0