x86/boot/e820: Separate the E820 ABI structures from the in-kernel structures

Linus pointed out that relying on the compiler to pack structures with
enums is fragile not just for the kernel, but for external tooling as
well which might rely on our UAPI headers.

So separate the two from each other: introduce 'struct boot_e820_entry',
which is the boot protocol entry format.

This actually simplifies the code, as e820__update_table() is now never
called directly with boot protocol table entries - we can rely on
append_e820_table() and do a e820__update_table() call afterwards.

( This will allow further simplifications of __e820__update_table(),
  but that will be done in a separate patch. )

This change also has the side effect of not modifying the bootparams structure
anymore - which might be useful for debugging. In theory we could even constify
the boot_params structure - at least from the E820 code's point of view.

Remove the uapi/asm/e820/types.h file, as it's not used anymore - all
kernel side E820 types are defined in asm/e820/types.h.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
index 7f04c45..2a5fd6b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 #include <linux/screen_info.h>
 #include <linux/apm_bios.h>
 #include <linux/edd.h>
-#include <uapi/asm/e820/types.h>
 #include <asm/ist.h>
 #include <video/edid.h>
 
@@ -111,6 +110,21 @@ struct efi_info {
 	__u32 efi_memmap_hi;
 };
 
+/*
+ * This is the maximum number of entries in struct boot_params::e820_table
+ * (the zeropage), which is part of the x86 boot protocol ABI:
+ */
+#define E820_MAX_ENTRIES_ZEROPAGE 128
+
+/*
+ * The E820 memory region entry of the boot protocol ABI:
+ */
+struct boot_e820_entry {
+	__u64 addr;
+	__u64 size;
+	__u32 type;
+} __attribute__((packed));
+
 /* The so-called "zeropage" */
 struct boot_params {
 	struct screen_info screen_info;			/* 0x000 */
@@ -152,7 +166,7 @@ struct boot_params {
 	struct setup_header hdr;    /* setup header */	/* 0x1f1 */
 	__u8  _pad7[0x290-0x1f1-sizeof(struct setup_header)];
 	__u32 edd_mbr_sig_buffer[EDD_MBR_SIG_MAX];	/* 0x290 */
-	struct e820_entry e820_table[E820_MAX_ENTRIES_ZEROPAGE]; /* 0x2d0 */
+	struct boot_e820_entry e820_table[E820_MAX_ENTRIES_ZEROPAGE]; /* 0x2d0 */
 	__u8  _pad8[48];				/* 0xcd0 */
 	struct edd_info eddbuf[EDDMAXNR];		/* 0xd00 */
 	__u8  _pad9[276];				/* 0xeec */