Hi Vitaly,

On 04/12/2017 07:54 PM, Vitaly Andrianov wrote:
> 
> On 04/12/2017 11:11 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Hi Vitaly,
>>
>> On 2017-04-12 16:57, Vitaly Andrianov wrote:
>>> Hi Jan,
>>>
>>> Most of inmate configurations for ARM platform has RAM .virt_start =
>>> 0x0. Is that a requirement?
>>
>> The reset vector is 0x0, so there should be some code at that location
>> when the inmate wants to start. Can be a fraction of the RAM, though,
>> just to carry some bootstrap page if you prefer.
>>
>>>
>>> A while ago I tried to make an inmate with .virt_start = 0x80000000 and
>>> couldn't load the inmate. I wondering if that is an issue with my
>>> configuration or a Jailhouse limitation. I'm working on porting a AM572x
>>> TI-RTOS based application to run as inmate and for me that is a big
>>> limitation (if that is a real limitation but not my bug). A typical
>>> TI-RTOS application has MMU enabled with identical one-to-one mapping of
>>> the entire DDR (0x80000000-0xffffffff). And the binary entry is
>>> somewhere at the beginning of that range.
>>>
>>> I saw couple of linux-demo configuration files with .virt_start != 0x0.
>>> Does jailhouse care the .virt_start != 0x0 in some special way? Or I
>>> just have some issue with my configuration?
>>
>> In case of Linux, you can see that there is always at least one small
>> region at virt_start 0 as well. That is were our linux-loader.bin is
>> put. It does not need identity mapping as it does not do any DMA.
>>
>> Jan
>>
> Hi Jan,
> 
> Sorry, I'm confused. From Ralf's reply I understood that I can link my
> inmate to not zero address (in my case I use beginning of the DDR -
> 0x80000000) and set .virt_start to the same address. Also I placed
> vector table to the beginning of the image, so the entry point is the
> start of the binary. I understood that configuration should work.
Sorry for the confusion, Jan is right, please let me amend:

Currently, relocating inmates is not sufficent, their entry point or
reset vector would have to be changed as well. Jailhouse currently jumps
to guest-phys 0x0.

  Ralf
> 
> From your reply I understood that I have to make at least a small
> section located at the virt_start = 0x0 address. Is that really necessary?
> 
> Thanks,
> Vitaly
> 
> 
> 
> 

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