From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>,
"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
"Stefano Stabellini" <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC v1 4/8] x86/init: add linker table support
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:25:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A130B5.8060701@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A0E0FB.6020809@oracle.com>
On 01/21/16 05:45, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> I don't think the hypervisor should be setting Linux specific boot
>> related parameters, the boot ABI should be OS agnostic. IMHO, a small
>> shim should be added to Linux in order to set what Linux requires when
>> entering from a Xen entry point.
For the record, this is exactly what hardware_subarch is meant to do:
revector to a stub to do this kind of setup, for a subarchitecture which
doesn't have a natural stub like BIOS or EFI. In the case of Xen PV, or
lguest, there are special care that has to be done very early in the
path due to the nonstandard handling of page tables, which is another
reason for this field.
> And that's exactly what HVMlite does. Most of this shim layer is setting
> up boot_params, after which we jump to standard x86 boot path (i.e.
> startup_{32|64}). With hardware_subarch set to zero.
Which is the way to do it as long as the early code can be the same.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-21 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-15 22:16 [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-12-15 22:16 ` [RFC v1 1/8] paravirt: rename paravirt_enabled to paravirt_legacy Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-20 19:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-04 22:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-12-15 22:16 ` [RFC v1 2/8] tables.h: add linker table support Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-20 20:04 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-01-20 23:15 ` Michael Brown
2016-01-20 23:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-12-15 22:16 ` [RFC v1 3/8] x86/boot: add BIT() to boot/bitops.h Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-20 20:17 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-01-20 20:33 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-12-15 22:16 ` [RFC v1 4/8] x86/init: add linker table support Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-20 20:45 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-01-20 21:00 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-01-20 21:33 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-20 21:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-20 22:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-20 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-22 0:25 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-22 0:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-11 20:45 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-21 8:38 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-01-21 13:45 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-01-21 19:25 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2016-01-21 19:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-21 19:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-21 19:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-22 0:19 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-21 20:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-21 21:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-12-15 22:16 ` [RFC v1 5/8] x86/init: move ebda reservations into linker table Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-12-17 20:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-17 20:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-12-17 20:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-17 23:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-20 20:46 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-12-15 22:16 ` [RFC v1 6/8] x86/init: use linker table for i386 early setup Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-20 21:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-01-20 21:41 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-11 19:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-12-15 22:16 ` [RFC v1 7/8] x86/init: user linker table for ce4100 " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-20 21:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-12-15 22:16 ` [RFC v1 8/8] x86/init: use linker table for mid " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-20 21:15 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-12-15 22:59 ` [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables H. Peter Anvin
2015-12-17 20:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-12-17 23:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-12-17 23:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-12-18 4:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-12-18 4:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-21 20:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-21 20:33 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-21 21:37 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-01-21 22:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-21 23:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-22 0:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-01-22 8:15 ` Michael Brown
2016-01-22 13:44 ` Michael Matz
2016-01-22 19:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-22 21:52 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-03 0:22 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-03 0:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-03 0:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-03 0:48 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-02 23:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-03 0:15 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-12-18 18:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-12-18 18:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-20 21:16 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-01-20 21:49 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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