Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 4/5] paravirt: Always prefer memory details from FW CFG over CMOS

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 05:37:45PM +0000, Rob Bradford wrote:
> If there is a QEMU FW CFG variable for memory available then always use
> it instead of CMOS. We cannot extract the values from E820 tables yet as
> that code assumes a working malloc.

Failed in testing.

Try a guest with 4G RAM, seabios falls back to cmos.

Try a guest with q35 and 7G RAM, seabios thinks it has 3G of low mem
even though it actually has 2G only.
> // Prefer QEMU FW CFG entry over CMOS for initial RAM sizes
> if (qemu_cfg_enabled()) {
>    qemu_cfg_read_entry(&RamSize, 0x03, sizeof(RamSize));
>    if (RamSize > 0) {
>        e820_add(0, RamSize, E820_RAM);
>        dprintf(1, "RamSize: 0x%08x [fw_cfg]\n", RamSize);
>    }
> }

You are loosing the high bits here, RamSize is a 32bit variable.

Another problem is that you only get the total amout of memory here, not
the mapping.

I think there is no way around scanning the e820 table (etc/e830 fw_cfg
file) for the ram entry with the zero start address to figure the amout
of ram you have below 4G.

cheers,
  Gerd