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authorJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>2007-10-22 11:03:32 +1000
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-10-23 15:49:52 +1000
commitd612cde060a005c1effb13d0f665448a04ce5f67 (patch)
treee7d77ba966a7c1dad70433b23e6086a1b5e18159 /drivers/lguest/x86
parentChange example launcher to use unsigned long not u32 (diff)
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Move register setup into i386_core.c
Move setup_regs() to lguest_arch_setup_regs() in i386_core.c given that this is very architecture specific. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/lguest/x86/core.c36
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c b/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c
index 2ef64a2734d3..84c09082f27f 100644
--- a/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c
@@ -535,3 +535,39 @@ int lguest_arch_init_hypercalls(struct lguest *lg)
/* Now we've examined the hypercall code; our Guest can make requests. There
* is one other way we can do things for the Guest, as we see in
* emulate_insn(). :*/
+
+/*L:030 lguest_arch_setup_regs()
+ *
+ * Most of the Guest's registers are left alone: we used get_zeroed_page() to
+ * allocate the structure, so they will be 0. */
+void lguest_arch_setup_regs(struct lguest *lg, unsigned long start)
+{
+ struct lguest_regs *regs = lg->regs;
+
+ /* There are four "segment" registers which the Guest needs to boot:
+ * The "code segment" register (cs) refers to the kernel code segment
+ * __KERNEL_CS, and the "data", "extra" and "stack" segment registers
+ * refer to the kernel data segment __KERNEL_DS.
+ *
+ * The privilege level is packed into the lower bits. The Guest runs
+ * at privilege level 1 (GUEST_PL).*/
+ regs->ds = regs->es = regs->ss = __KERNEL_DS|GUEST_PL;
+ regs->cs = __KERNEL_CS|GUEST_PL;
+
+ /* The "eflags" register contains miscellaneous flags. Bit 1 (0x002)
+ * is supposed to always be "1". Bit 9 (0x200) controls whether
+ * interrupts are enabled. We always leave interrupts enabled while
+ * running the Guest. */
+ regs->eflags = 0x202;
+
+ /* The "Extended Instruction Pointer" register says where the Guest is
+ * running. */
+ regs->eip = start;
+
+ /* %esi points to our boot information, at physical address 0, so don't
+ * touch it. */
+ /* There are a couple of GDT entries the Guest expects when first
+ * booting. */
+
+ setup_guest_gdt(lg);
+}