memos

fd_setup.md

• arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c

• __fdt_pointer dtb address

• setup_arch

void __init __no_sanitize_address setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
{
    ...
	setup_machine_fdt(__fdt_pointer);
    ...
}

• setup_machine_fdt

static void __init setup_machine_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys)
{
	int size;
	void *dt_virt = fixmap_remap_fdt(dt_phys, &size, PAGE_KERNEL);
	const char *name;

	if (dt_virt)
		memblock_reserve(dt_phys, size);

    // the dt_virt becomes 0.
	if (!dt_virt || !early_init_dt_scan(dt_virt)) {
		pr_crit("\n"
			"Error: invalid device tree blob at physical address %pa (virtual address 0x%p)\n"
			"The dtb must be 8-byte aligned and must not exceed 2 MB in size\n"
			"\nPlease check your bootloader.",
			&dt_phys, dt_virt);

		while (true)
			cpu_relax();
	}

	/* Early fixups are done, map the FDT as read-only now */
	fixmap_remap_fdt(dt_phys, &size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO);

	name = of_flat_dt_get_machine_name();
	if (!name)
		return;

	pr_info("Machine model: %s\n", name);
	dump_stack_set_arch_desc("%s (DT)", name);
}

• fix_map_remap_fdt() in arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c

void *__init fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys, int *size, pgprot_t prot)
{
	u64 dt_virt_base = __fix_to_virt(FIX_FDT);
	int offset;
	void *dt_virt;

	/*
	 * Check whether the physical FDT address is set and meets the minimum
	 * alignment requirement. Since we are relying on MIN_FDT_ALIGN to be
	 * at least 8 bytes so that we can always access the magic and size
	 * fields of the FDT header after mapping the first chunk, double check
	 * here if that is indeed the case.
	 */
	BUILD_BUG_ON(MIN_FDT_ALIGN < 8);
	if (!dt_phys || dt_phys % MIN_FDT_ALIGN)
		return NULL;

	/*
	 * Make sure that the FDT region can be mapped without the need to
	 * allocate additional translation table pages, so that it is safe
	 * to call create_mapping_noalloc() this early.
	 *
	 * On 64k pages, the FDT will be mapped using PTEs, so we need to
	 * be in the same PMD as the rest of the fixmap.
	 * On 4k pages, we'll use section mappings for the FDT so we only
	 * have to be in the same PUD.
	 */
	BUILD_BUG_ON(dt_virt_base % SZ_2M);

	BUILD_BUG_ON(__fix_to_virt(FIX_FDT_END) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT !=
		     __fix_to_virt(FIX_BTMAP_BEGIN) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT);

	offset = dt_phys % SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE;
	dt_virt = (void *)dt_virt_base + offset;

	/* map the first chunk so we can read the size from the header */
	create_mapping_noalloc(round_down(dt_phys, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE),
			dt_virt_base, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE, prot);

	if (fdt_magic(dt_virt) != FDT_MAGIC)
		return NULL;

	*size = fdt_totalsize(dt_virt);
	if (*size > MAX_FDT_SIZE)
		return NULL;

	if (offset + *size > SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE)
		create_mapping_noalloc(round_down(dt_phys, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE), dt_virt_base,
			       round_up(offset + *size, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE), prot);

	return dt_virt;
}

• __fix_to_virt in include/asm-generic/fixmap.h

#define __fix_to_virt(x)	(FIXADDR_TOP - ((x) << PAGE_SHIFT))

• FIXADDR_TOP in arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h

#define VMEMMAP_SHIFT	(PAGE_SHIFT - STRUCT_PAGE_MAX_SHIFT)
...
#define VA_BITS			(CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS)
...
#define VMEMMAP_START		(-(UL(1) << (VA_BITS - VMEMMAP_SHIFT)))
...
#define FIXADDR_TOP		(VMEMMAP_START - SZ_32M)
...