x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address from boot params if available
authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 07:25:29 +0000 (08:25 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 02:16:04 +0000 (02:16 +0000)
commitec00ed43bf46e9b83d9614b9ea2229a8508368e2
tree4afd44ce7973009edfc15f158abed32cc18f1667
parent084ae604dcf540555e59fc4de42fec361427ccf4
x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address from boot params if available

In case the RSDP address in struct boot_params is specified don't try
to find the table by searching, but take the address directly as set
by the boot loader.

Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120072529.5489-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Gbp-Pq: Topic features/x86
Gbp-Pq: Name x86-acpi-x86-boot-Take-RSDP-address-from-boot-params.patch
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c