lguest: move the initial guest page table creation code to the host
[deliverable/linux.git] / arch / x86 / lguest / i386_head.S
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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 Our story starts with the kernel booting into startup_32 in
9 * arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S. It expects a boot header, which is created by
10 * the bootloader (the Launcher in our case).
11 *
12 * The startup_32 function does very little: it clears the uninitialized global
13 * C variables which we expect to be zero (ie. BSS) and then copies the boot
14 * header and kernel command line somewhere safe. Finally it checks the
15 * 'hardware_subarch' field. This was introduced in 2.6.24 for lguest and Xen:
16 * if it's set to '1' (lguest's assigned number), then it calls us here.
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17 *
18 * WARNING: be very careful here! We're running at addresses equal to physical
19 * addesses (around 0), not above PAGE_OFFSET as most code expectes
20 * (eg. 0xC0000000). Jumps are relative, so they're OK, but we can't touch any
a6bd8e13 21 * data without remembering to subtract __PAGE_OFFSET!
07ad157f 22 *
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23 * The .section line puts this code in .init.text so it will be discarded after
24 * boot. */
07ad157f 25.section .init.text, "ax", @progbits
814a0e5c 26ENTRY(lguest_entry)
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27 /* We make the "initialization" hypercall now to tell the Host about
28 * us, and also find out where it put our page tables. */
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29 movl $LHCALL_LGUEST_INIT, %eax
30 movl $lguest_data - __PAGE_OFFSET, %edx
31 int $LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY
32
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33 /* Set up the initial stack so we can run C code. */
34 movl $(init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE),%esp
35
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36 /* Jumps are relative, and we're running __PAGE_OFFSET too low at the
37 * moment. */
38 jmp lguest_init+__PAGE_OFFSET
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b2b47c21 40/*G:055 We create a macro which puts the assembler code between lgstart_ and
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41 * lgend_ markers. These templates are put in the .text section: they can't be
42 * discarded after boot as we may need to patch modules, too. */
43.text
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44#define LGUEST_PATCH(name, insns...) \
45 lgstart_##name: insns; lgend_##name:; \
46 .globl lgstart_##name; .globl lgend_##name
47
48LGUEST_PATCH(cli, movl $0, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
49LGUEST_PATCH(sti, movl $X86_EFLAGS_IF, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
50LGUEST_PATCH(popf, movl %eax, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
51LGUEST_PATCH(pushf, movl lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled, %eax)
b2b47c21 52/*:*/
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54/* These demark the EIP range where host should never deliver interrupts. */
55.global lguest_noirq_start
56.global lguest_noirq_end
57
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58/*M:004 When the Host reflects a trap or injects an interrupt into the Guest,
59 * it sets the eflags interrupt bit on the stack based on
60 * lguest_data.irq_enabled, so the Guest iret logic does the right thing when
61 * restoring it. However, when the Host sets the Guest up for direct traps,
62 * such as system calls, the processor is the one to push eflags onto the
63 * stack, and the interrupt bit will be 1 (in reality, interrupts are always
64 * enabled in the Guest).
65 *
66 * This turns out to be harmless: the only trap which should happen under Linux
67 * with interrupts disabled is Page Fault (due to our lazy mapping of vmalloc
68 * regions), which has to be reflected through the Host anyway. If another
69 * trap *does* go off when interrupts are disabled, the Guest will panic, and
70 * we'll never get to this iret! :*/
71
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72/*G:045 There is one final paravirt_op that the Guest implements, and glancing
73 * at it you can see why I left it to last. It's *cool*! It's in *assembler*!
74 *
75 * The "iret" instruction is used to return from an interrupt or trap. The
76 * stack looks like this:
77 * old address
78 * old code segment & privilege level
79 * old processor flags ("eflags")
80 *
81 * The "iret" instruction pops those values off the stack and restores them all
82 * at once. The only problem is that eflags includes the Interrupt Flag which
83 * the Guest can't change: the CPU will simply ignore it when we do an "iret".
84 * So we have to copy eflags from the stack to lguest_data.irq_enabled before
85 * we do the "iret".
86 *
87 * There are two problems with this: firstly, we need to use a register to do
88 * the copy and secondly, the whole thing needs to be atomic. The first
89 * problem is easy to solve: push %eax on the stack so we can use it, and then
90 * restore it at the end just before the real "iret".
91 *
92 * The second is harder: copying eflags to lguest_data.irq_enabled will turn
93 * interrupts on before we're finished, so we could be interrupted before we
94 * return to userspace or wherever. Our solution to this is to surround the
95 * code with lguest_noirq_start: and lguest_noirq_end: labels. We tell the
96 * Host that it is *never* to interrupt us there, even if interrupts seem to be
97 * enabled. */
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98ENTRY(lguest_iret)
99 pushl %eax
100 movl 12(%esp), %eax
101lguest_noirq_start:
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102 /* Note the %ss: segment prefix here. Normal data accesses use the
103 * "ds" segment, but that will have already been restored for whatever
104 * we're returning to (such as userspace): we can't trust it. The %ss:
105 * prefix makes sure we use the stack segment, which is still valid. */
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106 movl %eax,%ss:lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled
107 popl %eax
108 iret
109lguest_noirq_end:
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