Update lguest documentation to reflect the new virtual block device name.
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1#include <linux/linkage.h>
2#include <linux/lguest.h>
47436aa4 3#include <asm/lguest_hcall.h>
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4#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
5#include <asm/thread_info.h>
876be9d8 6#include <asm/processor-flags.h>
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8/*G:020 This is where we begin: we have a magic signature which the launcher
9 * looks for. The plan is that the Linux boot protocol will be extended with a
07ad157f 10 * "platform type" field which will guide us here from the normal entry point,
b2b47c21 11 * but for the moment this suffices. The normal boot code uses %esi for the
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12 * boot header, so we do too.
13 *
14 * WARNING: be very careful here! We're running at addresses equal to physical
15 * addesses (around 0), not above PAGE_OFFSET as most code expectes
16 * (eg. 0xC0000000). Jumps are relative, so they're OK, but we can't touch any
17 * data.
07ad157f 18 *
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19 * The .section line puts this code in .init.text so it will be discarded after
20 * boot. */
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21.section .init.text, "ax", @progbits
22.ascii "GenuineLguest"
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23 /* Make initial hypercall now, so we can set up the pagetables. */
24 movl $LHCALL_LGUEST_INIT, %eax
25 movl $lguest_data - __PAGE_OFFSET, %edx
26 int $LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY
27
28 /* Set up boot information pointer to hand to lguest_init(): it wants
29 * a virtual address. */
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30 movl %esi, %eax
31 addl $__PAGE_OFFSET, %eax
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32
33 /* The Host put the toplevel pagetable in lguest_data.pgdir. The movsl
34 * instruction uses %esi, so we needed to save it above. */
35 movl lguest_data - __PAGE_OFFSET + LGUEST_DATA_pgdir, %esi
36
37 /* Copy first 32 entries of page directory to __PAGE_OFFSET entries.
38 * This means the first 128M of kernel memory will be mapped at
39 * PAGE_OFFSET where the kernel expects to run. This will get it far
40 * enough through boot to switch to its own pagetables. */
41 movl $32, %ecx
42 movl %esi, %edi
43 addl $((__PAGE_OFFSET >> 22) * 4), %edi
44 rep
45 movsl
46
47 /* Set up the initial stack so we can run C code. */
48 movl $(init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE),%esp
49
50
51 /* Jumps are relative, and we're running __PAGE_OFFSET too low at the
52 * moment. */
53 jmp lguest_init+__PAGE_OFFSET
07ad157f 54
b2b47c21 55/*G:055 We create a macro which puts the assembler code between lgstart_ and
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56 * lgend_ markers. These templates are put in the .text section: they can't be
57 * discarded after boot as we may need to patch modules, too. */
58.text
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59#define LGUEST_PATCH(name, insns...) \
60 lgstart_##name: insns; lgend_##name:; \
61 .globl lgstart_##name; .globl lgend_##name
62
63LGUEST_PATCH(cli, movl $0, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
64LGUEST_PATCH(sti, movl $X86_EFLAGS_IF, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
65LGUEST_PATCH(popf, movl %eax, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
66LGUEST_PATCH(pushf, movl lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled, %eax)
b2b47c21 67/*:*/
07ad157f 68
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69/* These demark the EIP range where host should never deliver interrupts. */
70.global lguest_noirq_start
71.global lguest_noirq_end
72
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73/*M:004 When the Host reflects a trap or injects an interrupt into the Guest,
74 * it sets the eflags interrupt bit on the stack based on
75 * lguest_data.irq_enabled, so the Guest iret logic does the right thing when
76 * restoring it. However, when the Host sets the Guest up for direct traps,
77 * such as system calls, the processor is the one to push eflags onto the
78 * stack, and the interrupt bit will be 1 (in reality, interrupts are always
79 * enabled in the Guest).
80 *
81 * This turns out to be harmless: the only trap which should happen under Linux
82 * with interrupts disabled is Page Fault (due to our lazy mapping of vmalloc
83 * regions), which has to be reflected through the Host anyway. If another
84 * trap *does* go off when interrupts are disabled, the Guest will panic, and
85 * we'll never get to this iret! :*/
86
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87/*G:045 There is one final paravirt_op that the Guest implements, and glancing
88 * at it you can see why I left it to last. It's *cool*! It's in *assembler*!
89 *
90 * The "iret" instruction is used to return from an interrupt or trap. The
91 * stack looks like this:
92 * old address
93 * old code segment & privilege level
94 * old processor flags ("eflags")
95 *
96 * The "iret" instruction pops those values off the stack and restores them all
97 * at once. The only problem is that eflags includes the Interrupt Flag which
98 * the Guest can't change: the CPU will simply ignore it when we do an "iret".
99 * So we have to copy eflags from the stack to lguest_data.irq_enabled before
100 * we do the "iret".
101 *
102 * There are two problems with this: firstly, we need to use a register to do
103 * the copy and secondly, the whole thing needs to be atomic. The first
104 * problem is easy to solve: push %eax on the stack so we can use it, and then
105 * restore it at the end just before the real "iret".
106 *
107 * The second is harder: copying eflags to lguest_data.irq_enabled will turn
108 * interrupts on before we're finished, so we could be interrupted before we
109 * return to userspace or wherever. Our solution to this is to surround the
110 * code with lguest_noirq_start: and lguest_noirq_end: labels. We tell the
111 * Host that it is *never* to interrupt us there, even if interrupts seem to be
112 * enabled. */
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113ENTRY(lguest_iret)
114 pushl %eax
115 movl 12(%esp), %eax
116lguest_noirq_start:
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117 /* Note the %ss: segment prefix here. Normal data accesses use the
118 * "ds" segment, but that will have already been restored for whatever
119 * we're returning to (such as userspace): we can't trust it. The %ss:
120 * prefix makes sure we use the stack segment, which is still valid. */
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121 movl %eax,%ss:lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled
122 popl %eax
123 iret
124lguest_noirq_end:
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