linux/include/xen/interface/elfnote.h
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   1/******************************************************************************
   2 * elfnote.h
   3 *
   4 * Definitions used for the Xen ELF notes.
   5 *
   6 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
   7 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
   8 * deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
   9 * rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
  10 * sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
  11 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
  12 *
  13 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
  14 * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
  15 *
  16 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
  17 * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  18 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  19 * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
  20 * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
  21 * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
  22 * DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
  23 *
  24 * Copyright (c) 2006, Ian Campbell, XenSource Ltd.
  25 */
  26
  27#ifndef __XEN_PUBLIC_ELFNOTE_H__
  28#define __XEN_PUBLIC_ELFNOTE_H__
  29
  30/*
  31 * The notes should live in a SHT_NOTE segment and have "Xen" in the
  32 * name field.
  33 *
  34 * Numeric types are either 4 or 8 bytes depending on the content of
  35 * the desc field.
  36 *
  37 * LEGACY indicated the fields in the legacy __xen_guest string which
  38 * this a note type replaces.
  39 *
  40 * String values (for non-legacy) are NULL terminated ASCII, also known
  41 * as ASCIZ type.
  42 */
  43
  44/*
  45 * NAME=VALUE pair (string).
  46 */
  47#define XEN_ELFNOTE_INFO           0
  48
  49/*
  50 * The virtual address of the entry point (numeric).
  51 *
  52 * LEGACY: VIRT_ENTRY
  53 */
  54#define XEN_ELFNOTE_ENTRY          1
  55
  56/* The virtual address of the hypercall transfer page (numeric).
  57 *
  58 * LEGACY: HYPERCALL_PAGE. (n.b. legacy value is a physical page
  59 * number not a virtual address)
  60 */
  61#define XEN_ELFNOTE_HYPERCALL_PAGE 2
  62
  63/* The virtual address where the kernel image should be mapped (numeric).
  64 *
  65 * Defaults to 0.
  66 *
  67 * LEGACY: VIRT_BASE
  68 */
  69#define XEN_ELFNOTE_VIRT_BASE      3
  70
  71/*
  72 * The offset of the ELF paddr field from the acutal required
  73 * pseudo-physical address (numeric).
  74 *
  75 * This is used to maintain backwards compatibility with older kernels
  76 * which wrote __PAGE_OFFSET into that field. This field defaults to 0
  77 * if not present.
  78 *
  79 * LEGACY: ELF_PADDR_OFFSET. (n.b. legacy default is VIRT_BASE)
  80 */
  81#define XEN_ELFNOTE_PADDR_OFFSET   4
  82
  83/*
  84 * The version of Xen that we work with (string).
  85 *
  86 * LEGACY: XEN_VER
  87 */
  88#define XEN_ELFNOTE_XEN_VERSION    5
  89
  90/*
  91 * The name of the guest operating system (string).
  92 *
  93 * LEGACY: GUEST_OS
  94 */
  95#define XEN_ELFNOTE_GUEST_OS       6
  96
  97/*
  98 * The version of the guest operating system (string).
  99 *
 100 * LEGACY: GUEST_VER
 101 */
 102#define XEN_ELFNOTE_GUEST_VERSION  7
 103
 104/*
 105 * The loader type (string).
 106 *
 107 * LEGACY: LOADER
 108 */
 109#define XEN_ELFNOTE_LOADER         8
 110
 111/*
 112 * The kernel supports PAE (x86/32 only, string = "yes" or "no").
 113 *
 114 * LEGACY: PAE (n.b. The legacy interface included a provision to
 115 * indicate 'extended-cr3' support allowing L3 page tables to be
 116 * placed above 4G. It is assumed that any kernel new enough to use
 117 * these ELF notes will include this and therefore "yes" here is
 118 * equivalent to "yes[entended-cr3]" in the __xen_guest interface.
 119 */
 120#define XEN_ELFNOTE_PAE_MODE       9
 121
 122/*
 123 * The features supported/required by this kernel (string).
 124 *
 125 * The string must consist of a list of feature names (as given in
 126 * features.h, without the "XENFEAT_" prefix) separated by '|'
 127 * characters. If a feature is required for the kernel to function
 128 * then the feature name must be preceded by a '!' character.
 129 *
 130 * LEGACY: FEATURES
 131 */
 132#define XEN_ELFNOTE_FEATURES      10
 133
 134/*
 135 * The kernel requires the symbol table to be loaded (string = "yes" or "no")
 136 * LEGACY: BSD_SYMTAB (n.b. The legacy treated the presence or absence
 137 * of this string as a boolean flag rather than requiring "yes" or
 138 * "no".
 139 */
 140#define XEN_ELFNOTE_BSD_SYMTAB    11
 141
 142/*
 143 * The lowest address the hypervisor hole can begin at (numeric).
 144 *
 145 * This must not be set higher than HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START. Its presence
 146 * also indicates to the hypervisor that the kernel can deal with the
 147 * hole starting at a higher address.
 148 */
 149#define XEN_ELFNOTE_HV_START_LOW  12
 150
 151/*
 152 * List of maddr_t-sized mask/value pairs describing how to recognize
 153 * (non-present) L1 page table entries carrying valid MFNs (numeric).
 154 */
 155#define XEN_ELFNOTE_L1_MFN_VALID  13
 156
 157/*
 158 * Whether or not the guest supports cooperative suspend cancellation.
 159 * This is a numeric value.
 160 *
 161 * Default is 0
 162 */
 163#define XEN_ELFNOTE_SUSPEND_CANCEL 14
 164
 165/*
 166 * The (non-default) location the initial phys-to-machine map should be
 167 * placed at by the hypervisor (Dom0) or the tools (DomU).
 168 * The kernel must be prepared for this mapping to be established using
 169 * large pages, despite such otherwise not being available to guests.
 170 * The kernel must also be able to handle the page table pages used for
 171 * this mapping not being accessible through the initial mapping.
 172 * (Only x86-64 supports this at present.)
 173 */
 174#define XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M      15
 175
 176/*
 177 * Whether or not the guest can deal with being passed an initrd not
 178 * mapped through its initial page tables.
 179 */
 180#define XEN_ELFNOTE_MOD_START_PFN 16
 181
 182/*
 183 * The features supported by this kernel (numeric).
 184 *
 185 * Other than XEN_ELFNOTE_FEATURES on pre-4.2 Xen, this note allows a
 186 * kernel to specify support for features that older hypervisors don't
 187 * know about. The set of features 4.2 and newer hypervisors will
 188 * consider supported by the kernel is the combination of the sets
 189 * specified through this and the string note.
 190 *
 191 * LEGACY: FEATURES
 192 */
 193#define XEN_ELFNOTE_SUPPORTED_FEATURES 17
 194
 195/*
 196 * Physical entry point into the kernel.
 197 *
 198 * 32bit entry point into the kernel. When requested to launch the
 199 * guest kernel in a HVM container, Xen will use this entry point to
 200 * launch the guest in 32bit protected mode with paging disabled.
 201 * Ignored otherwise.
 202 */
 203#define XEN_ELFNOTE_PHYS32_ENTRY 18
 204
 205/*
 206 * The number of the highest elfnote defined.
 207 */
 208#define XEN_ELFNOTE_MAX XEN_ELFNOTE_PHYS32_ENTRY
 209
 210#endif /* __XEN_PUBLIC_ELFNOTE_H__ */
 211