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authorJason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>2024-08-23 15:36:27 -0400
committerJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2024-09-25 14:15:08 +0200
commit1db29f99edb056d8445876292f53a63459142309 (patch)
treedd0cf65846c6e09df7587b349186785cfed6950d /.gitignore
parent08377ed24feef66866d0c6aabcae0aec515cf2ca (diff)
x86/pvh: Make PVH entrypoint PIC for x86-64
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 <jason.andryuk@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Message-ID: <20240823193630.2583107-3-jason.andryuk@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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