linux/arch/x86/lguest/head_32.S
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   1#include <linux/linkage.h>
   2#include <linux/lguest.h>
   3#include <asm/lguest_hcall.h>
   4#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
   5#include <asm/thread_info.h>
   6#include <asm/processor-flags.h>
   7
   8/*G:020
   9
  10 * Our story starts with the bzImage: booting starts at startup_32 in
  11 * arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S.  This merely uncompresses the real
  12 * kernel in place and then jumps into it: startup_32 in
  13 * arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S.  Both routines expects a boot header in the %esi
  14 * register, which is created by the bootloader (the Launcher in our case).
  15 *
  16 * The startup_32 function does very little: it clears the uninitialized global
  17 * C variables which we expect to be zero (ie. BSS) and then copies the boot
  18 * header and kernel command line somewhere safe, and populates some initial
  19 * page tables.  Finally it checks the 'hardware_subarch' field.  This was
  20 * introduced in 2.6.24 for lguest and Xen: if it's set to '1' (lguest's
  21 * assigned number), then it calls us here.
  22 *
  23 * WARNING: be very careful here!  We're running at addresses equal to physical
  24 * addresses (around 0), not above PAGE_OFFSET as most code expects
  25 * (eg. 0xC0000000).  Jumps are relative, so they're OK, but we can't touch any
  26 * data without remembering to subtract __PAGE_OFFSET!
  27 *
  28 * The .section line puts this code in .init.text so it will be discarded after
  29 * boot.
  30 */
  31.section .init.text, "ax", @progbits
  32ENTRY(lguest_entry)
  33        /*
  34         * We make the "initialization" hypercall now to tell the Host where
  35         * our lguest_data struct is.
  36         */
  37        movl $LHCALL_LGUEST_INIT, %eax
  38        movl $lguest_data - __PAGE_OFFSET, %ebx
  39        int $LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY
  40
  41        /* Now turn our pagetables on; setup by arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S. */
  42        movl $LHCALL_NEW_PGTABLE, %eax
  43        movl $(initial_page_table - __PAGE_OFFSET), %ebx
  44        int $LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY
  45
  46        /* Set up the initial stack so we can run C code. */
  47        movl $(init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE),%esp
  48
  49        /* Jumps are relative: we're running __PAGE_OFFSET too low. */
  50        jmp lguest_init+__PAGE_OFFSET
  51
  52/*G:055
  53 * We create a macro which puts the assembler code between lgstart_ and lgend_
  54 * markers.  These templates are put in the .text section: they can't be
  55 * discarded after boot as we may need to patch modules, too.
  56 */
  57.text
  58#define LGUEST_PATCH(name, insns...)                    \
  59        lgstart_##name: insns; lgend_##name:;           \
  60        .globl lgstart_##name; .globl lgend_##name
  61
  62LGUEST_PATCH(cli, movl $0, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled)
  63LGUEST_PATCH(pushf, movl lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled, %eax)
  64
  65/*G:033
  66 * But using those wrappers is inefficient (we'll see why that doesn't matter
  67 * for save_fl and irq_disable later).  If we write our routines carefully in
  68 * assembler, we can avoid clobbering any registers and avoid jumping through
  69 * the wrapper functions.
  70 *
  71 * I skipped over our first piece of assembler, but this one is worth studying
  72 * in a bit more detail so I'll describe in easy stages.  First, the routine to
  73 * enable interrupts:
  74 */
  75ENTRY(lg_irq_enable)
  76        /*
  77         * The reverse of irq_disable, this sets lguest_data.irq_enabled to
  78         * X86_EFLAGS_IF (ie. "Interrupts enabled").
  79         */
  80        movl $X86_EFLAGS_IF, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled
  81        /*
  82         * But now we need to check if the Host wants to know: there might have
  83         * been interrupts waiting to be delivered, in which case it will have
  84         * set lguest_data.irq_pending to X86_EFLAGS_IF.  If it's not zero, we
  85         * jump to send_interrupts, otherwise we're done.
  86         */
  87        cmpl $0, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_pending
  88        jnz send_interrupts
  89        /*
  90         * One cool thing about x86 is that you can do many things without using
  91         * a register.  In this case, the normal path hasn't needed to save or
  92         * restore any registers at all!
  93         */
  94        ret
  95send_interrupts:
  96        /*
  97         * OK, now we need a register: eax is used for the hypercall number,
  98         * which is LHCALL_SEND_INTERRUPTS.
  99         *
 100         * We used not to bother with this pending detection at all, which was
 101         * much simpler.  Sooner or later the Host would realize it had to
 102         * send us an interrupt.  But that turns out to make performance 7
 103         * times worse on a simple tcp benchmark.  So now we do this the hard
 104         * way.
 105         */
 106        pushl %eax
 107        movl $LHCALL_SEND_INTERRUPTS, %eax
 108        /* This is the actual hypercall trap. */
 109        int  $LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY
 110        /* Put eax back the way we found it. */
 111        popl %eax
 112        ret
 113
 114/*
 115 * Finally, the "popf" or "restore flags" routine.  The %eax register holds the
 116 * flags (in practice, either X86_EFLAGS_IF or 0): if it's X86_EFLAGS_IF we're
 117 * enabling interrupts again, if it's 0 we're leaving them off.
 118 */
 119ENTRY(lg_restore_fl)
 120        /* This is just "lguest_data.irq_enabled = flags;" */
 121        movl %eax, lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled
 122        /*
 123         * Now, if the %eax value has enabled interrupts and
 124         * lguest_data.irq_pending is set, we want to tell the Host so it can
 125         * deliver any outstanding interrupts.  Fortunately, both values will
 126         * be X86_EFLAGS_IF (ie. 512) in that case, and the "testl"
 127         * instruction will AND them together for us.  If both are set, we
 128         * jump to send_interrupts.
 129         */
 130        testl lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_pending, %eax
 131        jnz send_interrupts
 132        /* Again, the normal path has used no extra registers.  Clever, huh? */
 133        ret
 134/*:*/
 135
 136/* These demark the EIP where host should never deliver interrupts. */
 137.global lguest_noirq_iret
 138
 139/*M:004
 140 * When the Host reflects a trap or injects an interrupt into the Guest, it
 141 * sets the eflags interrupt bit on the stack based on lguest_data.irq_enabled,
 142 * so the Guest iret logic does the right thing when restoring it.  However,
 143 * when the Host sets the Guest up for direct traps, such as system calls, the
 144 * processor is the one to push eflags onto the stack, and the interrupt bit
 145 * will be 1 (in reality, interrupts are always enabled in the Guest).
 146 *
 147 * This turns out to be harmless: the only trap which should happen under Linux
 148 * with interrupts disabled is Page Fault (due to our lazy mapping of vmalloc
 149 * regions), which has to be reflected through the Host anyway.  If another
 150 * trap *does* go off when interrupts are disabled, the Guest will panic, and
 151 * we'll never get to this iret!
 152:*/
 153
 154/*G:045
 155 * There is one final paravirt_op that the Guest implements, and glancing at it
 156 * you can see why I left it to last.  It's *cool*!  It's in *assembler*!
 157 *
 158 * The "iret" instruction is used to return from an interrupt or trap.  The
 159 * stack looks like this:
 160 *   old address
 161 *   old code segment & privilege level
 162 *   old processor flags ("eflags")
 163 *
 164 * The "iret" instruction pops those values off the stack and restores them all
 165 * at once.  The only problem is that eflags includes the Interrupt Flag which
 166 * the Guest can't change: the CPU will simply ignore it when we do an "iret".
 167 * So we have to copy eflags from the stack to lguest_data.irq_enabled before
 168 * we do the "iret".
 169 *
 170 * There are two problems with this: firstly, we can't clobber any registers
 171 * and secondly, the whole thing needs to be atomic.  The first problem
 172 * is solved by using "push memory"/"pop memory" instruction pair for copying.
 173 *
 174 * The second is harder: copying eflags to lguest_data.irq_enabled will turn
 175 * interrupts on before we're finished, so we could be interrupted before we
 176 * return to userspace or wherever.  Our solution to this is to tell the
 177 * Host that it is *never* to interrupt us there, even if interrupts seem to be
 178 * enabled. (It's not necessary to protect pop instruction, since
 179 * data gets updated only after it completes, so we only need to protect
 180 * one instruction, iret).
 181 */
 182ENTRY(lguest_iret)
 183        pushl   2*4(%esp)
 184        /*
 185         * Note the %ss: segment prefix here.  Normal data accesses use the
 186         * "ds" segment, but that will have already been restored for whatever
 187         * we're returning to (such as userspace): we can't trust it.  The %ss:
 188         * prefix makes sure we use the stack segment, which is still valid.
 189         */
 190        popl    %ss:lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled
 191lguest_noirq_iret:
 192        iret
 193