From e6e094e053af75cbc164e950814d3d084fb1e698 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:25:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h | 3 ++-
 arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c           | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
index a06cbf0197446..60733f137e9a2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ struct boot_params {
 	__u8  _pad2[4];					/* 0x054 */
 	__u64  tboot_addr;				/* 0x058 */
 	struct ist_info ist_info;			/* 0x060 */
-	__u8  _pad3[16];				/* 0x070 */
+	__u64 acpi_rsdp_addr;				/* 0x070 */
+	__u8  _pad3[8];					/* 0x078 */
 	__u8  hd0_info[16];	/* obsolete! */		/* 0x080 */
 	__u8  hd1_info[16];	/* obsolete! */		/* 0x090 */
 	struct sys_desc_table sys_desc_table; /* obsolete! */	/* 0x0a0 */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
index fb3b1f3a5aba5..06635fbca81c0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
@@ -1776,5 +1776,5 @@ void __init arch_reserve_mem_area(acpi_physical_address addr, size_t size)
 
 u64 x86_default_get_root_pointer(void)
 {
-	return 0;
+	return boot_params.acpi_rsdp_addr;
 }
-- 
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