During attempts to configure a serial console, a Page Fault Exception
and system reset were encountered, specifically on release 2.12~rc1.
This issue was not present in prior versions and seemed to affect only
a specific machine, potentially pointing to hardware or firmware flaw.
After investigation, it was discovered that the invalid page access
occurred during the discovery of serial MMIO ports as specified by
ACPI's SPCR table [1]. The recent change uncovered an issue in GRUB's
ACPI driver.
In certain cases, the XSDT/RSDT root table might contain a NULL entry as
a terminator, depending on how the tables are assembled. GRUB cannot
blindly trust the address in the root table to be valid and should
perform a sanity check for NULL entries. This patch introduces this
simple check.
This fix is also inspired by a related Linux kernel fix [2].
[1] 7b192ec4c term/ns8250: Use ACPI SPCR table when available to configure serial
[2] 0f929fbf0 ACPICA: Tables: Add new mechanism to skip NULL entries in RSDT and XSDT.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chang <mchang@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
According to the ACPI specification, in ACPI 2.0 or later, an
ACPI-compatible OS must use the XSDT if present. So, we should
use xsdt_addr instead of rsdt_addr if xsdt_addr is valid.
Signed-off-by: Qiumiao Zhang <zhangqiumiao1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
And convert grub_acpi_find_fadt() to use it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
PIT isn't available on some of new hardware including Hyper-V. So
use pmtimer for calibration. Moreover pmtimer calibration is faster, so
use it on coreboor where booting time is important.
Based on patch by Michael Chang.
