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The PVH entrypoint is 32bit non-PIC code running the uncompressed
vmlinux at its load address CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START - default 0x1000000
(16MB). The kernel is loaded at that physical address inside the VM by
the VMM software (Xen/QEMU).
When running a Xen PVH Dom0, the host reserved addresses are mapped 1-1
into the PVH container. There exist system firmwares (Coreboot/EDK2)
with reserved memory at 16MB. This creates a conflict where the PVH
kernel cannot be loaded at that address.
Modify the PVH entrypoint to be position-indepedent to allow flexibility
in load address. Only the 64bit entry path is converted. A 32bit
kernel is not PIC, so calling into other parts of the kernel, like
xen_prepare_pvh() and mk_pgtable_32(), don't work properly when
relocated.
This makes the code PIC, but the page tables need to be updated as well
to handle running from the kernel high map.
The UNWIND_HINT_END_OF_STACK is to silence:
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: pvh_start_xen+0x7f: unreachable instruction
after the lret into 64bit code.
Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
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