From: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77@gmail.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
"Teddy Astie" <teddy.astie@vates.tech>,
"Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>,
"Frediano Ziglio" <frediano.ziglio@citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/4] x86/efi: discard multiboot support for PE binary
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:13:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260616101336.44009-3-frediano.ziglio@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260616101336.44009-1-frediano.ziglio@citrix.com>
From: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Multiboot and PVH booting are not supported for PE, hence discards them
in the linker script when doing a PE build.
That removes some relocations that otherwise appear due to the usage of the
start and __efi64_mb2_start symbols in the multiboot2 header.
Section discarding is not done updating DISCARD_SECTIONS definition as the
change is specific for x86.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@citrix.com>
--
Changes since v1:
- improve commit message;
- change section orders to avoid changing code order in final executable;
- merge 2 commits;
- removed deprecated documentation section.
Changes since v2:
- Update commit message, join 2 sentences together.
---
docs/hypervisor-guide/x86/how-xen-boots.rst | 6 ------
xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S | 3 ++-
xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/hypervisor-guide/x86/how-xen-boots.rst b/docs/hypervisor-guide/x86/how-xen-boots.rst
index 8b3229005c..b6d852050a 100644
--- a/docs/hypervisor-guide/x86/how-xen-boots.rst
+++ b/docs/hypervisor-guide/x86/how-xen-boots.rst
@@ -82,12 +82,6 @@ When a PEI-capable toolchain is found, the objects are linked together and a
PE32+ binary is created. It can be run directly from the EFI shell, and has
``efi_start`` as its entry symbol.
-.. note::
-
- xen.efi does contain all MB1/MB2/PVH tags included in the rest of the
- build. However, entry via anything other than the EFI64 protocol is
- unsupported, and won't work.
-
Boot
----
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S b/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S
index 77bb7a9e21..90faf411b9 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ vga_text_buffer:
efi_platform:
.byte 0
- .section .init.text, "ax", @progbits
+ .section .init.multiboot, "ax", @progbits
early_error: /* Here to improve the disassembly. */
@@ -710,6 +710,7 @@ trampoline_setup:
/* Jump into the relocated trampoline. */
lret
+ .section .init.text, "ax", @progbits
ENTRY(trampoline_start)
#include "trampoline.S"
ENTRY(trampoline_end)
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S b/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S
index f758940674..749d9719cc 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ SECTIONS
__image_base__ = .;
#else
. = __image_base__;
+ /DISCARD/ : {
+ *(.text.header)
+ *(.init.multiboot)
+ }
#endif
#if 0
@@ -195,6 +199,7 @@ SECTIONS
DECL_SECTION(.init.text) {
#endif
_sinittext = .;
+ *(.init.multiboot)
*(.init.text)
*(.text.startup)
_einittext = .;
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-16 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-16 10:13 [PATCH v3 0/4] Various patches to improve Secure Boot support Frediano Ziglio
2026-06-16 10:13 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] Align relevant sections to 4KB Frediano Ziglio
2026-06-16 10:44 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2026-06-16 12:27 ` Jan Beulich
2026-06-16 14:38 ` Frediano Ziglio
2026-06-16 14:54 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2026-06-16 15:07 ` Jan Beulich
2026-06-16 10:13 ` Frediano Ziglio [this message]
2026-06-16 10:55 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] x86/efi: discard multiboot support for PE binary Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2026-06-16 10:13 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] x86/efi: avoid a relocation in efi_arch_post_exit_boot() Frediano Ziglio
2026-06-16 11:04 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2026-06-16 10:13 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] x86: Split .init section to satisfy UEFI CA memory mitigation Frediano Ziglio
2026-06-16 11:20 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2026-06-16 11:29 ` Andrew Cooper
2026-06-16 12:30 ` Jan Beulich
2026-06-16 12:40 ` Andrew Cooper
2026-06-16 13:50 ` Frediano Ziglio
2026-06-16 13:50 ` Jan Beulich
2026-06-16 14:46 ` Andrew Cooper
2026-06-16 14:58 ` Andrew Cooper
2026-06-16 15:05 ` Jan Beulich
2026-06-16 15:08 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
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