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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-10-21 16:41:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-22 08:13:17 -0700
commite5371ac566b6794f2125393b6850909de9e16f58 (patch)
treeac08bad552ebfb1f0deb55f88230369f236b8ac0
parent55b70a0300b873c0ec7ea6e33752af56f41250ce (diff)
downloadlinux-e5371ac566b6794f2125393b6850909de9e16f58.tar.bz2
update boot spec to 2.07
Updates for version 2.07 of the boot protocol. This includes: load_flags.KEEP_SEGMENTS- flag to request/inhibit segment reloads hardware_subarch - what subarchitecture we're booting under hardware_subarch_data - per-architecture data The intention of these changes is to make booting a paravirtualized kernel work via the normal Linux boot protocol. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i386/boot.txt34
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c7
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86/bootparam.h9
3 files changed, 47 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
index 35985b34d5a6..2f75e750e4f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ Offset Proto Name Meaning
0234/1 2.05+ relocatable_kernel Whether kernel is relocatable or not
0235/3 N/A pad2 Unused
0238/4 2.06+ cmdline_size Maximum size of the kernel command line
+023C/4 2.07+ hardware_subarch Hardware subarchitecture
+0240/8 2.07+ hardware_subarch_data Subarchitecture-specific data
(1) For backwards compatibility, if the setup_sects field contains 0, the
real value is 4.
@@ -204,7 +206,7 @@ boot loaders can ignore those fields.
The byte order of all fields is littleendian (this is x86, after all.)
-Field name: setup_secs
+Field name: setup_sects
Type: read
Offset/size: 0x1f1/1
Protocol: ALL
@@ -356,6 +358,13 @@ Protocol: 2.00+
- If 0, the protected-mode code is loaded at 0x10000.
- If 1, the protected-mode code is loaded at 0x100000.
+ Bit 6 (write): KEEP_SEGMENTS
+ Protocol: 2.07+
+ - if 0, reload the segment registers in the 32bit entry point.
+ - if 1, do not reload the segment registers in the 32bit entry point.
+ Assume that %cs %ds %ss %es are all set to flat segments with
+ a base of 0 (or the equivalent for their environment).
+
Bit 7 (write): CAN_USE_HEAP
Set this bit to 1 to indicate that the value entered in the
heap_end_ptr is valid. If this field is clear, some setup code
@@ -480,6 +489,29 @@ Protocol: 2.06+
cmdline_size characters. With protocol version 2.05 and earlier, the
maximum size was 255.
+Field name: hardware_subarch
+Type: write
+Offset/size: 0x23c/4
+Protocol: 2.07+
+
+ In a paravirtualized environment the hardware low level architectural
+ pieces such as interrupt handling, page table handling, and
+ accessing process control registers needs to be done differently.
+
+ This field allows the bootloader to inform the kernel we are in one
+ one of those environments.
+
+ 0x00000000 The default x86/PC environment
+ 0x00000001 lguest
+ 0x00000002 Xen
+
+Field name: hardware_subarch_data
+Type: write
+Offset/size: 0x240/8
+Protocol: 2.07+
+
+ A pointer to data that is specific to hardware subarch
+
**** THE KERNEL COMMAND LINE
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c
index f1b7cdda82b3..f8764716b0c0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <asm/fixmap.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
+#include <asm/bootparam.h>
#include <asm/elf.h>
#include <xen/interface/xen.h>
@@ -146,4 +147,10 @@ void foo(void)
OFFSET(LGUEST_PAGES_regs_errcode, lguest_pages, regs.errcode);
OFFSET(LGUEST_PAGES_regs, lguest_pages, regs);
#endif
+
+ BLANK();
+ OFFSET(BP_scratch, boot_params, scratch);
+ OFFSET(BP_loadflags, boot_params, hdr.loadflags);
+ OFFSET(BP_hardware_subarch, boot_params, hdr.hardware_subarch);
+ OFFSET(BP_version, boot_params, hdr.version);
}
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/bootparam.h b/include/asm-x86/bootparam.h
index ef67b59dbdb9..dc031cf44633 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/bootparam.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/bootparam.h
@@ -28,8 +28,9 @@ struct setup_header {
u16 kernel_version;
u8 type_of_loader;
u8 loadflags;
-#define LOADED_HIGH 0x01
-#define CAN_USE_HEAP 0x80
+#define LOADED_HIGH (1<<0)
+#define KEEP_SEGMENTS (1<<6)
+#define CAN_USE_HEAP (1<<7)
u16 setup_move_size;
u32 code32_start;
u32 ramdisk_image;
@@ -41,6 +42,10 @@ struct setup_header {
u32 initrd_addr_max;
u32 kernel_alignment;
u8 relocatable_kernel;
+ u8 _pad2[3];
+ u32 cmdline_size;
+ u32 hardware_subarch;
+ u64 hardware_subarch_data;
} __attribute__((packed));
struct sys_desc_table {