acpi: Add machine option to disable SPCR table

The ACPI SPCR (Serial Port Console Redirection) table allows firmware
to specify a preferred serial console device to the operating system.
On ARM64 systems, Linux by default respects this table: even if the
kernel command line does not include a hardware serial console (e.g.,
"console=ttyAMA0"), the kernel still register the serial device
referenced by SPCR as a printk console.

While this behavior is standard-compliant, it can lead to situations
where guest console behavior is influenced by platform firmware rather
than user-specified configuration. To make guest console behavior more
predictable and under user control, this patch introduces a machine
option to explicitly disable SPCR table exposure:

    -machine spcr=off

By default, the option is enabled (spcr=on), preserving existing
behavior. When disabled, QEMU will omit the SPCR table from the guest's
ACPI namespace, ensuring that only consoles explicitly declared in the
kernel command line are registered.

Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
Reviewed-by: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
Message-Id: <20250528105404.457729-2-me@linux.beauty>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c b/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
index 0dfb8ec2c3..782b17b966 100644
--- a/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
+++ b/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
@@ -1023,7 +1023,10 @@ void virt_acpi_build(VirtMachineState *vms, AcpiBuildTables *tables)
     }
 
     acpi_add_table(table_offsets, tables_blob);
-    spcr_setup(tables_blob, tables->linker, vms);
+
+    if (ms->acpi_spcr_enabled) {
+        spcr_setup(tables_blob, tables->linker, vms);
+    }
 
     acpi_add_table(table_offsets, tables_blob);
     build_dbg2(tables_blob, tables->linker, vms);