acpigen: Support writing a length

It is convenient to write a length value for preceding a block of data.
Of course the length is not known or is hard to calculate a priori. So add
a way to mark the start on a stack, so the length can be updated when
known.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Wolfgang Wallner <wolfgang.wallner@br-automation.com>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/acpi/acpigen.h b/include/acpi/acpigen.h
index 9c1faf7bf2..18409b613c 100644
--- a/include/acpi/acpigen.h
+++ b/include/acpi/acpigen.h
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
 
 struct acpi_ctx;
 
+/* Top 4 bits of the value used to indicate a three-byte length value */
+#define ACPI_PKG_LEN_3_BYTES	0x80
+
 /**
  * acpigen_get_current() - Get the current ACPI code output pointer
  *
@@ -65,4 +68,42 @@ void acpigen_emit_stream(struct acpi_ctx *ctx, const char *data, int size);
  */
 void acpigen_emit_string(struct acpi_ctx *ctx, const char *str);
 
+/**
+ * acpigen_write_len_f() - Write a 'forward' length placeholder
+ *
+ * This adds space for a length value in the ACPI stream and pushes the current
+ * position (before the length) on the stack. After calling this you can write
+ * some data and then call acpigen_pop_len() to update the length value.
+ *
+ * Usage:
+ *
+ *    acpigen_write_len_f() ------\
+ *    acpigen_write...()          |
+ *    acpigen_write...()          |
+ *      acpigen_write_len_f() --\ |
+ *      acpigen_write...()      | |
+ *      acpigen_write...()      | |
+ *      acpigen_pop_len() ------/ |
+ *    acpigen_write...()          |
+ *    acpigen_pop_len() ----------/
+ *
+ * See ACPI 6.3 section 20.2.4 Package Length Encoding
+ *
+ * This implementation always uses a 3-byte packet length for simplicity. It
+ * could be adjusted to support other lengths.
+ *
+ * @ctx: ACPI context pointer
+ */
+void acpigen_write_len_f(struct acpi_ctx *ctx);
+
+/**
+ * acpigen_pop_len() - Update the previously stacked length placeholder
+ *
+ * Call this after the data for the block has been written. It updates the
+ * top length value in the stack and pops it off.
+ *
+ * @ctx: ACPI context pointer
+ */
+void acpigen_pop_len(struct acpi_ctx *ctx);
+
 #endif