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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2011-07-22 14:39:48 +0930
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2011-07-22 14:39:48 +0930
commit5dea1c88ed11a1221581c4b202f053c4fc138704 (patch)
tree59e15d3c696712e26ffb229ff987f33bcc72affe /arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
parentlguest: Do not exit on non-fatal errors (diff)
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lguest: use a special 1:1 linear pagetable mode until first switch.
The Host used to create some page tables for the Guest to use at the top of Guest memory; it would then tell the Guest where this was. In particular, it created linear mappings for 0 and 0xC0000000 addresses because lguest used to switch to its real page tables quite late in boot. However, since d50d8fe19 Linux initialized boot page tables in head_32.S even before the "are we lguest?" boot jump. So, now we can simplify things: the Host pagetable code assumes 1:1 linear mapping until it first calls the LHCALL_NEW_PGTABLE hypercall, which we now do before we reach C code. This also means that the Host doesn't need to know anything about the Guest's PAGE_OFFSET. (Non-Linux guests might not even have such a thing). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
index 4f420c2f2d55..863b03a9fbff 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
@@ -27,13 +27,18 @@
.section .init.text, "ax", @progbits
ENTRY(lguest_entry)
/*
- * We make the "initialization" hypercall now to tell the Host about
- * us, and also find out where it put our page tables.
+ * We make the "initialization" hypercall now to tell the Host where
+ * our lguest_data struct is.
*/
movl $LHCALL_LGUEST_INIT, %eax
movl $lguest_data - __PAGE_OFFSET, %ebx
int $LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY
+ /* Now turn our pagetables on; setup by arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S. */
+ movl $LHCALL_NEW_PGTABLE, %eax
+ movl $(initial_page_table - __PAGE_OFFSET), %ebx
+ int $LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY
+
/* Set up the initial stack so we can run C code. */
movl $(init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE),%esp