x86, acpi: Introduce x86 arch specific arch_reserve_mem_area() for e820 handling

This is needed for ACPI table overriding via initrd. Beside reserving
memblocks, X86 also requires to flag the memory area to E820_RESERVED or
E820_ACPI in the e820 mappings to be able to io(re)map it later.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349043837-22659-3-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
index b2297e58c6ed..6b75777c0a8d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
@@ -1700,3 +1700,9 @@ int __acpi_release_global_lock(unsigned int *lock)
         } while (unlikely (val != old));
         return old & 0x1;
 }
+
+void __init arch_reserve_mem_area(acpi_physical_address addr, size_t size)
+{
+        e820_add_region(addr, size, E820_ACPI);
+        update_e820();
+}