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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-23 09:03:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-23 09:03:07 -0700
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest: (45 commits) Use "struct boot_params" in example launcher Loading bzImage directly. Revert lguest magic and use hook in head.S Update lguest documentation to reflect the new virtual block device name. generalize lgread_u32/lgwrite_u32. Example launcher handle guests not being ready for input Update example launcher for virtio Lguest support for Virtio Remove old lguest I/O infrrasructure. Remove old lguest bus and drivers. Virtio helper routines for a descriptor ringbuffer implementation Module autoprobing support for virtio drivers. Virtio console driver Block driver using virtio. Net driver using virtio Virtio interface Boot with virtual == physical to get closer to native Linux. Allow guest to specify syscall vector to use. Rename "cr3" to "gpgdir" to avoid x86-specific naming. Pagetables to use normal kernel types ...
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+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+#include <linux/lguest.h>
+#include <asm/lguest_hcall.h>
+#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
+#include <asm/thread_info.h>
+#include <asm/processor-flags.h>
+
+/*G:020 This is where we begin: head.S notes that the boot header's platform
+ * type field is "1" (lguest), so calls us here. The boot header is in %esi.
+ *
+ * WARNING: be very careful here! We're running at addresses equal to physical
+ * addesses (around 0), not above PAGE_OFFSET as most code expectes
+ * (eg. 0xC0000000). Jumps are relative, so they're OK, but we can't touch any
+ * data.
+ *
+ * The .section line puts this code in .init.text so it will be discarded after
+ * boot. */
+.section .init.text, "ax", @progbits
+ENTRY(lguest_entry)
+ /* Make initial hypercall now, so we can set up the pagetables. */
+ movl $LHCALL_LGUEST_INIT, %eax
+ movl $lguest_data - __PAGE_OFFSET, %edx
+ int $LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY
+
+ /* The Host put the toplevel pagetable in lguest_data.pgdir. The movsl
+ * instruction uses %esi implicitly. */
+ movl lguest_data - __PAGE_OFFSET + LGUEST_DATA_pgdir, %esi
+
+ /* Copy first 32 entries of page directory to __PAGE_OFFSET entries.
+ * This means the first 128M of kernel memory will be mapped at
+ * PAGE_OFFSET where the kernel expects to run. This will get it far
+ * enough through boot to switch to its own pagetables. */
+ movl $32, %ecx
+ movl %esi, %edi
+ addl $((__PAGE_OFFSET >> 22) * 4), %edi
+ rep
+ movsl
+
+ /* Set up the initial stack so we can run C code. */
+ movl $(init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE),%esp
+
+ /* Jumps are relative, and we're running __PAGE_OFFSET too low at the
+ * moment. */
+ jmp lguest_init+__PAGE_OFFSET
+
+/*G:055 We create a macro which puts the assembler code between lgstart_ and
+ * lgend_ markers. These templates are put in the .text section: they can't be
+ * discarded after boot as we may need to patch modules, too. */
+.text
+#define LGUEST_PATCH(name, insns...) \
+ lgstart_##name: insns; lgend_##name:; \
+ .globl lgstart_##name; .globl lgend_##name
+
+LGUEST_PATCH(cli, movl $0, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
+LGUEST_PATCH(sti, movl $X86_EFLAGS_IF, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
+LGUEST_PATCH(popf, movl %eax, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
+LGUEST_PATCH(pushf, movl lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled, %eax)
+/*:*/
+
+/* These demark the EIP range where host should never deliver interrupts. */
+.global lguest_noirq_start
+.global lguest_noirq_end
+
+/*M:004 When the Host reflects a trap or injects an interrupt into the Guest,
+ * it sets the eflags interrupt bit on the stack based on
+ * lguest_data.irq_enabled, so the Guest iret logic does the right thing when
+ * restoring it. However, when the Host sets the Guest up for direct traps,
+ * such as system calls, the processor is the one to push eflags onto the
+ * stack, and the interrupt bit will be 1 (in reality, interrupts are always
+ * enabled in the Guest).
+ *
+ * This turns out to be harmless: the only trap which should happen under Linux
+ * with interrupts disabled is Page Fault (due to our lazy mapping of vmalloc
+ * regions), which has to be reflected through the Host anyway. If another
+ * trap *does* go off when interrupts are disabled, the Guest will panic, and
+ * we'll never get to this iret! :*/
+
+/*G:045 There is one final paravirt_op that the Guest implements, and glancing
+ * at it you can see why I left it to last. It's *cool*! It's in *assembler*!
+ *
+ * The "iret" instruction is used to return from an interrupt or trap. The
+ * stack looks like this:
+ * old address
+ * old code segment & privilege level
+ * old processor flags ("eflags")
+ *
+ * The "iret" instruction pops those values off the stack and restores them all
+ * at once. The only problem is that eflags includes the Interrupt Flag which
+ * the Guest can't change: the CPU will simply ignore it when we do an "iret".
+ * So we have to copy eflags from the stack to lguest_data.irq_enabled before
+ * we do the "iret".
+ *
+ * There are two problems with this: firstly, we need to use a register to do
+ * the copy and secondly, the whole thing needs to be atomic. The first
+ * problem is easy to solve: push %eax on the stack so we can use it, and then
+ * restore it at the end just before the real "iret".
+ *
+ * The second is harder: copying eflags to lguest_data.irq_enabled will turn
+ * interrupts on before we're finished, so we could be interrupted before we
+ * return to userspace or wherever. Our solution to this is to surround the
+ * code with lguest_noirq_start: and lguest_noirq_end: labels. We tell the
+ * Host that it is *never* to interrupt us there, even if interrupts seem to be
+ * enabled. */
+ENTRY(lguest_iret)
+ pushl %eax
+ movl 12(%esp), %eax
+lguest_noirq_start:
+ /* Note the %ss: segment prefix here. Normal data accesses use the
+ * "ds" segment, but that will have already been restored for whatever
+ * we're returning to (such as userspace): we can't trust it. The %ss:
+ * prefix makes sure we use the stack segment, which is still valid. */
+ movl %eax,%ss:lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled
+ popl %eax
+ iret
+lguest_noirq_end:
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