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QEMU<->ACPI BIOS NVDIMM interface
---------------------------------
QEMU supports NVDIMM via ACPI. This document describes the basic concepts of
NVDIMM ACPI and the interface between QEMU and the ACPI BIOS.
NVDIMM ACPI Background
----------------------
NVDIMM is introduced in ACPI 6.0 which defines an NVDIMM root device under
_SB scope with a _HID of “ACPI0012”. For each NVDIMM present or intended
to be supported by platform, platform firmware also exposes an ACPI
Namespace Device under the root device.
The NVDIMM child devices under the NVDIMM root device are defined with _ADR
corresponding to the NFIT device handle. The NVDIMM root device and the
NVDIMM devices can have device specific methods (_DSM) to provide additional
functions specific to a particular NVDIMM implementation.
This is an example from ACPI 6.0, a platform contains one NVDIMM:
Scope (\_SB){
Device (NVDR) // Root device
{
Name (_HID, “ACPI0012”)
Method (_STA) {...}
Method (_FIT) {...}
Method (_DSM, ...) {...}
Device (NVD)
{
Name(_ADR, h) //where h is NFIT Device Handle for this NVDIMM
Method (_DSM, ...) {...}
}
}
}
Method supported on both NVDIMM root device and NVDIMM device
_DSM (Device Specific Method)
It is a control method that enables devices to provide device specific
control functions that are consumed by the device driver.
The NVDIMM DSM specification can be found at:
http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf
Arguments:
Arg0 – A Buffer containing a UUID (16 Bytes)
Arg1 – An Integer containing the Revision ID (4 Bytes)
Arg2 – An Integer containing the Function Index (4 Bytes)
Arg3 – A package containing parameters for the function specified by the
UUID, Revision ID, and Function Index
Return Value:
If Function Index = 0, a Buffer containing a function index bitfield.
Otherwise, the return value and type depends on the UUID, revision ID
and function index which are described in the DSM specification.
Methods on NVDIMM ROOT Device
_FIT(Firmware Interface Table)
It evaluates to a buffer returning data in the format of a series of NFIT
Type Structure.
Arguments: None
Return Value:
A Buffer containing a list of NFIT Type structure entries.
The detailed definition of the structure can be found at ACPI 6.0: 5.2.25
NVDIMM Firmware Interface Table (NFIT).
QEMU NVDIMM Implemention
========================
QEMU uses 4 bytes IO Port starting from 0x0a18 and a RAM-based memory page
for NVDIMM ACPI.
Memory:
QEMU uses BIOS Linker/loader feature to ask BIOS to allocate a memory
page and dynamically patch its into a int32 object named "MEMA" in ACPI.
This page is RAM-based and it is used to transfer data between _DSM
method and QEMU. If ACPI has control, this pages is owned by ACPI which
writes _DSM input data to it, otherwise, it is owned by QEMU which
emulates _DSM access and writes the output data to it.
ACPI writes _DSM Input Data (based on the offset in the page):
[0x0 - 0x3]: 4 bytes, NVDIMM Device Handle, 0 is reserved for NVDIMM
Root device.
[0x4 - 0x7]: 4 bytes, Revision ID, that is the Arg1 of _DSM method.
[0x8 - 0xB]: 4 bytes. Function Index, that is the Arg2 of _DSM method.
[0xC - 0xFFF]: 4084 bytes, the Arg3 of _DSM method.
QEMU Writes Output Data (based on the offset in the page):
[0x0 - 0x3]: 4 bytes, the length of result
[0x4 - 0xFFF]: 4092 bytes, the DSM result filled by QEMU
IO Port 0x0a18 - 0xa1b:
ACPI writes the address of the memory page allocated by BIOS to this
port then QEMU gets the control and fills the result in the memory page.
write Access:
[0x0a18 - 0xa1b]: 4 bytes, the address of the memory page allocated
by BIOS.
_DSM process diagram:
---------------------
"MEMA" indicates the address of memory page allocated by BIOS.
+----------------------+ +-----------------------+
| 1. OSPM | | 2. OSPM |
| save _DSM input data | | write "MEMA" to | Exit to QEMU
| to the page +----->| IO port 0x0a18 +------------+
| indicated by "MEMA" | | | |
+----------------------+ +-----------------------+ |
|
v
+------------- ----+ +-----------+ +------------------+--------+
| 5 QEMU | | 4 QEMU | | 3. QEMU |
| write _DSM result | | emulate | | get _DSM input data from |
| to the page +<------+ _DSM +<-----+ the page indicated by the |
| | | | | value from the IO port |
+--------+-----------+ +-----------+ +---------------------------+
|
| Enter Guest
|
v
+--------------------------+ +--------------+
| 6 OSPM | | 7 OSPM |
| result size is returned | | _DSM return |
| by reading DSM +----->+ |
| result from the page | | |
+--------------------------+ +--------------+
Device Handle Reservation
-------------------------
As we mentioned above, byte 0 ~ byte 3 in the DSM memory save NVDIMM device
handle. The handle is completely QEMU internal thing, the values in range
[0, 0xFFFF] indicate nvdimm device (O means nvdimm root device named NVDR),
other values are reserved by other purpose.
Current reserved handle:
0x10000 is reserved for QEMU internal DSM function called on the root
device.
QEMU internal use only _DSM function
------------------------------------
UUID, 648B9CF2-CDA1-4312-8AD9-49C4AF32BD62, is reserved for QEMU internal
DSM function.
There is the function introduced by QEMU and only used by QEMU internal.
1) Read FIT
As we only reserved one page for NVDIMM ACPI it is impossible to map the
whole FIT data to guest's address space. This function is used by _FIT
method to read a piece of FIT data from QEMU.
Input parameters:
Arg0 – UUID {set to 648B9CF2-CDA1-4312-8AD9-49C4AF32BD62}
Arg1 – Revision ID (set to 1)
Arg2 - Function Index, 0x1
Arg3 - A package containing a buffer whose layout is as follows:
+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
| Filed | Byte Length | Byte Offset | Description |
+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
| offset | 4 | 0 | the offset of FIT buffer |
+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
Output:
+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
| Filed | Byte Length | Byte Offset | Description |
+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
| | | | return status codes |
| | | | 0x100 indicates fit has been |
| status | 4 | 0 | updated |
| | | | other follows Chapter 3 in DSM |
| | | | Spec Rev1 |
+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
| fit data | Varies | 4 | FIT data |
| | | | |
+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
The FIT offset is maintained by the caller itself, current offset plugs
the length returned by the function is the next offset we should read.
When all the FIT data has been read out, zero length is returned.
If it returns 0x100, OSPM should restart to read FIT (read from offset 0
again).
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