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[PATCH-for-4.2,v9,10/12] docs/specs: Add ACPI GED documentation

Message ID 20190813210539.31164-11-shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com
State Superseded
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Series ARM virt: ACPI memory hotplug support | expand

Commit Message

Shameerali Kolothum Thodi Aug. 13, 2019, 9:05 p.m. UTC
Documents basic concepts of ACPI Generic Event device(GED)
and interface between QEMU and the ACPI BIOS.

Signed-off-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>

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 docs/specs/acpi_hw_reduced_hotplug.txt | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 docs/specs/acpi_hw_reduced_hotplug.txt

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Comments

Eric Auger Sept. 1, 2019, 11:20 a.m. UTC | #1
Hi Shameer,
On 8/13/19 11:05 PM, Shameer Kolothum wrote:
> Documents basic concepts of ACPI Generic Event device(GED)

> and interface between QEMU and the ACPI BIOS.

> 

> Signed-off-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>

Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>


Thanks

Eric
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>  docs/specs/acpi_hw_reduced_hotplug.txt | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

>  1 file changed, 60 insertions(+)

>  create mode 100644 docs/specs/acpi_hw_reduced_hotplug.txt

> 

> diff --git a/docs/specs/acpi_hw_reduced_hotplug.txt b/docs/specs/acpi_hw_reduced_hotplug.txt

> new file mode 100644

> index 0000000000..46839be5ff

> --- /dev/null

> +++ b/docs/specs/acpi_hw_reduced_hotplug.txt

> @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@

> +QEMU<->ACPI BIOS Generic Event Device interface

> +

> +The ACPI Generic Event Device (GED) is a HW reduced platform

> +specific device introduced in ACPI v6.1 that handles all platform

> +events, including the hotplug ones. GED is modelled as a device

> +in the namespace with a _HID defined to be ACPI0013. This document

> +describes the interface between QEMU and the ACPI BIOS.

> +

> +GED allows HW reduced platforms to handle interrupts in ACPI ASL

> +statements. It follows a very similar approach like the _EVT method

> +from GPIO events. All interrupts are listed in  _CRS and the handler

> +is written in _EVT method. However, Qemu implementation uses a single

> +interrupt for the GED device, relying on IO memory region to communicate

> +the type of device affected by the interrupt. This way, we can support

> +up to 32 events with a unique interrupt.

> +

> +Here is an example.

> +

> +Device (\_SB.GED)

> +{

> +    Name (_HID, "ACPI0013")

> +    Name (_UID, Zero)

> +    Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate ()

> +    {

> +        Interrupt (ResourceConsumer, Edge, ActiveHigh, Exclusive, ,, )

> +        {

> +            0x00000029,

> +        }

> +    })

> +    OperationRegion (EREG, SystemMemory, 0x09080000, 0x04)

> +    Field (EREG, DWordAcc, NoLock, WriteAsZeros)

> +    {

> +        ESEL,   32

> +    }

> +    Method (_EVT, 1, Serialized)

> +    {

> +        Local0 = ESEL // ESEL = IO memory region which specifies the

> +                      // device type.

> +        If (((Local0 & One) == One))

> +        {

> +            MethodEvent1()

> +        }

> +        If ((Local0 & 0x2) == 0x2)

> +        {

> +            MethodEvent2()

> +        }

> +        ...

> +    }

> +}

> +

> +GED IO interface (4 byte access):

> +read access:

> +    [0x0-0x3] Event selector bit field(32 bit) set by Qemu.

> +    bits:

> +        1:  Memory hotplug event

> +        2:  System power down event

> +     3-31:  Reserved

> +

> +write_access:

> +    Nothing is expected to be written into GED IO memory

>
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diff --git a/docs/specs/acpi_hw_reduced_hotplug.txt b/docs/specs/acpi_hw_reduced_hotplug.txt
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+QEMU<->ACPI BIOS Generic Event Device interface
+
+The ACPI Generic Event Device (GED) is a HW reduced platform
+specific device introduced in ACPI v6.1 that handles all platform
+events, including the hotplug ones. GED is modelled as a device
+in the namespace with a _HID defined to be ACPI0013. This document
+describes the interface between QEMU and the ACPI BIOS.
+
+GED allows HW reduced platforms to handle interrupts in ACPI ASL
+statements. It follows a very similar approach like the _EVT method
+from GPIO events. All interrupts are listed in  _CRS and the handler
+is written in _EVT method. However, Qemu implementation uses a single
+interrupt for the GED device, relying on IO memory region to communicate
+the type of device affected by the interrupt. This way, we can support
+up to 32 events with a unique interrupt.
+
+Here is an example.
+
+Device (\_SB.GED)
+{
+    Name (_HID, "ACPI0013")
+    Name (_UID, Zero)
+    Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate ()
+    {
+        Interrupt (ResourceConsumer, Edge, ActiveHigh, Exclusive, ,, )
+        {
+            0x00000029,
+        }
+    })
+    OperationRegion (EREG, SystemMemory, 0x09080000, 0x04)
+    Field (EREG, DWordAcc, NoLock, WriteAsZeros)
+    {
+        ESEL,   32
+    }
+    Method (_EVT, 1, Serialized)
+    {
+        Local0 = ESEL // ESEL = IO memory region which specifies the
+                      // device type.
+        If (((Local0 & One) == One))
+        {
+            MethodEvent1()
+        }
+        If ((Local0 & 0x2) == 0x2)
+        {
+            MethodEvent2()
+        }
+        ...
+    }
+}
+
+GED IO interface (4 byte access):
+read access:
+    [0x0-0x3] Event selector bit field(32 bit) set by Qemu.
+    bits:
+        1:  Memory hotplug event
+        2:  System power down event
+     3-31:  Reserved
+
+write_access:
+    Nothing is expected to be written into GED IO memory