1 What: /sys/firmware/memmap/
3 Contact: Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@gmx.de>
5 On all platforms, the firmware provides a memory map which the
6 kernel reads. The resources from that memory map are registered
7 in the kernel resource tree and exposed to userspace via
8 /proc/iomem (together with other resources).
10 However, on most architectures that firmware-provided memory
11 map is modified afterwards by the kernel itself, either because
12 the kernel merges that memory map with other information or
13 just because the user overwrites that memory map via command
16 kexec needs the raw firmware-provided memory map to setup the
17 parameter segment of the kernel that should be booted with
18 kexec. Also, the raw memory map is useful for debugging. For
19 that reason, /sys/firmware/memmap is an interface that provides
20 the raw memory map to userspace.
22 The structure is as follows: Under /sys/firmware/memmap there
23 are subdirectories with the number of the entry as their name::
25 /sys/firmware/memmap/0
26 /sys/firmware/memmap/1
27 /sys/firmware/memmap/2
28 /sys/firmware/memmap/3
31 The maximum depends on the number of memory map entries provided
32 by the firmware. The order is just the order that the firmware
35 Each directory contains three files:
37 ======== =====================================================
38 start The start address (as hexadecimal number with the
40 end The end address, inclusive (regardless whether the
41 firmware provides inclusive or exclusive ranges).
42 type Type of the entry as string. See below for a list of
44 ======== =====================================================
48 /sys/firmware/memmap/0/start
49 /sys/firmware/memmap/0/end
50 /sys/firmware/memmap/0/type
51 /sys/firmware/memmap/1/start
54 Currently following types exist:
58 - ACPI Non-volatile Storage
61 Following shell snippet can be used to display that memory
62 map in a human-readable format::
65 cd /sys/firmware/memmap
67 start=$(cat $dir/start)
70 printf "%016x-%016x (%s)\n" $start $[ $end +1] "$type"