arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support

SMBIOS is important for server hardware vendors. It implements a spec for
providing descriptive information about the platform. Things like serial
numbers, physical layout of the ports, build configuration data, and the like.
Signed-off-by: Yi Li <yi.li@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Tested-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

arch/arm64/Kconfig

@@ -401,6 +401,17 @@ config EFI
 	  allow the kernel to be booted as an EFI application. This
 	  is only useful on systems that have UEFI firmware.
 
+config DMI
+	bool "Enable support for SMBIOS (DMI) tables"
+	depends on EFI
+	default y
+	help
+	  This enables SMBIOS/DMI feature for systems.
+
+	  This option is only useful on systems that have UEFI firmware.
+	  However, even with this option, the resultant kernel should
+	  continue to boot on existing non-UEFI platforms.
+
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 menu "Userspace binary formats"

arch/arm64/include/asm/dmi.h

+/*
+ * arch/arm64/include/asm/dmi.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 Linaro Limited.
+ * Written by: Yi Li (yi.li@linaro.org)
+ *
+ * based on arch/ia64/include/asm/dmi.h
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
+ * License.  See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
+ * for more details.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __ASM_DMI_H
+#define __ASM_DMI_H
+
+#include <linux/io.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+
+/*
+ * According to section 2.3.6 of the UEFI spec, the firmware should not
+ * request a virtual mapping for configuration tables such as SMBIOS.
+ * This means we have to map them before use.
+ */
+#define dmi_early_remap(x, l)		ioremap_cache(x, l)
+#define dmi_early_unmap(x, l)		iounmap(x)
+#define dmi_remap(x, l)			ioremap_cache(x, l)
+#define dmi_unmap(x)			iounmap(x)
+#define dmi_alloc(l)			kzalloc(l, GFP_KERNEL)
+
+#endif

arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
  *
  */
 
+#include <linux/dmi.h>
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/memblock.h>
@@ -469,3 +470,15 @@ static int __init arm64_enter_virtual_mode(void)
 	return -1;
 }
 early_initcall(arm64_enter_virtual_mode);
+
+static int __init arm64_dmi_init(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * On arm64, DMI depends on UEFI, and dmi_scan_machine() needs to
+	 * be called early because dmi_id_init(), which is an arch_initcall
+	 * itself, depends on dmi_scan_machine() having been called already.
+	 */
+	dmi_scan_machine();
+	return 0;
+}
+core_initcall(arm64_dmi_init);