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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
index cbf4bec..004c5c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
@@ -251,23 +251,6 @@ static void *get_pages(unsigned int num)
return addr;
}
-/* To find out where to start we look for the magic Guest string, which marks
- * the code we see in lguest_asm.S. This is a hack which we are currently
- * plotting to replace with the normal Linux entry point. */
-static unsigned long entry_point(const void *start, const void *end)
-{
- const void *p;
-
- /* The scan gives us the physical starting address. We boot with
- * pagetables set up with virtual and physical the same, so that's
- * OK. */
- for (p = start; p < end; p++)
- if (memcmp(p, "GenuineLguest", strlen("GenuineLguest")) == 0)
- return to_guest_phys(p + strlen("GenuineLguest"));
-
- errx(1, "Is this image a genuine lguest?");
-}
-
/* This routine is used to load the kernel or initrd. It tries mmap, but if
* that fails (Plan 9's kernel file isn't nicely aligned on page boundaries),
* it falls back to reading the memory in. */
@@ -303,7 +286,6 @@ static void map_at(int fd, void *addr, unsigned long offset, unsigned long len)
* We return the starting address. */
static unsigned long map_elf(int elf_fd, const Elf32_Ehdr *ehdr)
{
- void *start = (void *)-1, *end = NULL;
Elf32_Phdr phdr[ehdr->e_phnum];
unsigned int i;
@@ -335,19 +317,13 @@ static unsigned long map_elf(int elf_fd, const Elf32_Ehdr *ehdr)
verbose("Section %i: size %i addr %p\n",
i, phdr[i].p_memsz, (void *)phdr[i].p_paddr);
- /* We track the first and last address we mapped, so we can
- * tell entry_point() where to scan. */
- if (from_guest_phys(phdr[i].p_paddr) < start)
- start = from_guest_phys(phdr[i].p_paddr);
- if (from_guest_phys(phdr[i].p_paddr) + phdr[i].p_filesz > end)
- end=from_guest_phys(phdr[i].p_paddr)+phdr[i].p_filesz;
-
/* We map this section of the file at its physical address. */
map_at(elf_fd, from_guest_phys(phdr[i].p_paddr),
phdr[i].p_offset, phdr[i].p_filesz);
}
- return entry_point(start, end);
+ /* The entry point is given in the ELF header. */
+ return ehdr->e_entry;
}
/*L:160 Unfortunately the entire ELF image isn't compressed: the segments
@@ -374,7 +350,8 @@ static unsigned long unpack_bzimage(int fd)
verbose("Unpacked size %i addr %p\n", len, img);
- return entry_point(img, img + len);
+ /* The entry point for a bzImage is always the first byte */
+ return (unsigned long)img;
}
/*L:150 A bzImage, unlike an ELF file, is not meant to be loaded. You're
@@ -1684,8 +1661,15 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
*(u32 *)(boot + 0x228) = 4096;
concat(boot + 4096, argv+optind+2);
- /* The guest type value of "1" tells the Guest it's under lguest. */
- *(int *)(boot + 0x23c) = 1;
+ /* Boot protocol version: 2.07 supports the fields for lguest. */
+ *(u16 *)(boot + 0x206) = 0x207;
+
+ /* The hardware_subarch value of "1" tells the Guest it's an lguest. */
+ *(u32 *)(boot + 0x23c) = 1;
+
+ /* Set bit 6 of the loadflags (aka. KEEP_SEGMENTS) so the entry path
+ * does not try to reload segment registers. */
+ *(u8 *)(boot + 0x211) |= (1 << 6);
/* We tell the kernel to initialize the Guest: this returns the open
* /dev/lguest file descriptor. */