Consume the host-provided specification of PCI host bridges if
available. Using the DxeHardwareInfoLib, populate a list of
hardware descriptors based on the content of the "hardware-info"
fw-cfg file, if provided. In the affirmative case, use the
resources and attributes specified by the hypervisor for each
Host Bridge to create the RootBridge elements.
In Ovmf platforms, the host can provide the specification of
non-discoverable hardware resources like PCI host bridges. If the
proper fw-cfg file is found, parse the contents provided by the
host into a linked list by using the Hardware Info library. Then,
using the list of PCI host bridges' descriptions, populate the
PCI_ROOT_BRIDGES array with the resources and attributes specified
by the host. If the file is not provided or no Host Bridge is found
in it, fold back to the legacy method based on pre-defined
apertures and rules.
In some use cases, the host requires additional control over the
hardware resources' configurations in the guest for performance and
discoverability reasons. For instance, to disclose information about
the PCI hierarchy to the guest so that this can profit from
optimized accesses. In this case, the host can decide to describe
multiple PCI Host Bridges and provide a specific set of resources
(e.g. MMIO apertures) so that the guest uses the values provided.
Using the provided values may entitle the guest to added performance,
for example by using specific MMIO mappings that can enable peer-to-peer
communication across the PCI hierarchy or by allocating memory closer
to a device for faster DMA transactions.
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.de>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ojeda Leon <ncoleon@amazon.com>
Nicolas Ojeda Leon
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