e820: Undefined type not treated as AddressRangeReserved

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Linux folks,


Some firmware, like coreboot with older FILO payload [1] or GRUB as 
payload [2], mark memory regions(?) with type E820 type 13 (Undefined), 
that is reserved for future use. Other payloads like SeaBIOS mark it as 
2 (AddressRangeReserved). As a result, userspace is not able to access 
this region, which can be worked around by booting with `iomem=relaxed`, 
or probably with the `memmap` parameter.

    $ grep -A1 3ff7b000 /proc/iomem # FILO
    3ff7b000-3fffffff : Unknown E820 type
      3ffa1000-3ffa8fff : BOOT0000:00

    $ grep -A1 3ff7b000 /proc/iomem # SeaBIOS, that marks it as reserved
    3ff7b000-3fffffff : Reserved
      3ffa1000-3ffa8fff : BOOT0000:00

Table 15-374 *Address Range Types* in the ACPI specification 6.3 says:

> Reserved for future use. OSPM must treat any range of this type as if
> the type returned was AddressRangeReserved.

Could and should Linux be adapted to follow the specification, and fix 
some real-world use cases? I looked at 
`arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h` and `arch/x86/kernel/e820.c`, but 
failed to find the place where to implement this, and how to name the 
macros for the undefined regions.


Kind regards,

Paul


[1]: https://review.coreboot.org/c/filo/+/51120
[2]: https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/590
[3]: https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_3_final_Jan30.pdf


diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h 
b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h
index 80c4a7266629..1b341914d438 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ enum e820_type {
        E820_TYPE_NVS           = 4,
        E820_TYPE_UNUSABLE      = 5,
        E820_TYPE_PMEM          = 7,
+       E820_TYPE_UNDEFINED_8   = 8, /* reserved for future use */
+       E820_TYPE_UNDEFINED_9   = 9, /* reserved for future use */
+       E820_TYPE_UNDEFINED_10  = 10, /* reserved for future use */
+       E820_TYPE_UNDEFINED_11  = 11, /* reserved for future use */

        /*
         * This is a non-standardized way to represent ADR or
@@ -28,6 +32,8 @@ enum e820_type {
         */
        E820_TYPE_PRAM          = 12,

+       E820_TYPE_UNDEFINED_13  = 13, /* reserved for future use */
+
        /*
         * Special-purpose memory is indicated to the system via the
         * EFI_MEMORY_SP attribute. Define an e820 translation of this