ArmVirtPkg: ArmVirtQemu: expose only 64-bit entry point for v3.0+ SMBIOS

The legacy 32-bit SMBIOS entry point has little use on AARCH64 systems,
since many such systems have no 32-bit addressable physical RAM, and so
OSes that implement SMBIOS will have to be able to deal with the 64-bit
entry point anyway.

Given that the OS will map main memory in 1 GB chunks if it can, and that
punching a page sized hole (e.g., for SMBIOS data) into it will result in
the whole 1 GB chunk being mapped using 2 MB and 4 KB blocks instead, it
is important to group memory reservations from the OS as much as we can,
and allocating below 4 GB for no good reason interferes with that.

This is especially important under virtualization, considering that each
*level* of lookup at stage 1 (the guest virtual page table) will result in
a full page table walk at stage 2 (the guest PA to host PA mapping).

So expose only the 64-bit entry point when the SMBIOS tables adhere to
version 3.0 or later.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
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Ard Biesheuvel 2016-02-18 09:59:09 +01:00
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# support anything bigger, even if the host hardware does
gEmbeddedTokenSpaceGuid.PcdPrePiCpuMemorySize|40
# Clearing BIT0 in this PCD prevents installing a 32-bit SMBIOS entry point,
# if the entry point version is >= 3.0. AARCH64 OSes cannot assume the
# presence of the 32-bit entry point anyway (because many AARCH64 systems
# don't have 32-bit addressable physical RAM), and the additional allocations
# below 4 GB needlessly fragment the memory map. So expose the 64-bit entry
# point only, for entry point versions >= 3.0.
gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdSmbiosEntryPointProvideMethod|0x2
[PcdsDynamicDefault.common]
## If TRUE, OvmfPkg/AcpiPlatformDxe will not wait for PCI
# enumeration to complete before installing ACPI tables.