On Thursday, 7 of February 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.S
> > ===================================================================
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.S
> > @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
> > +/*
> > + * ACPI wakeup real mode startup stub
> > + */
> > +#include <asm/segment.h>
> > +#include <asm/msr-index.h>
> > +#include <asm/page_64.h>
> > +#include <asm/pgtable_64.h>
> > +
> > + .code16
> > + .section ".header", "a"
> > +
> > +/* This should match the structure in wakeup.h */
> > + .globl wakeup_header
> > +wakeup_header:
> > +video_mode: .short 0 /* Video mode number */
> > +pmode_return: .byte 0x66, 0xea /* ljmpl */
> > + .long 0 /* offset goes here */
> > + .short __KERNEL_CS
>
> Missing a .short pad here... Pavel fixed that at some point, I thought.
Hm, the struct in wakeup.h doesn't contain it too. Why exactly is it
necessary?
[--snip--]
> > }
> > - memcpy((void *)acpi_wakeup_address, &wakeup_start,
> > - &wakeup_end - &wakeup_start);
> > - acpi_copy_wakeup_routine(acpi_wakeup_address);
> > + memcpy((void *)acpi_realmode, &wakeup_code_start, 4*PAGE_SIZE);
>
> Using a PAGE_SIZE multiplier here isn't a good thing...
Yes, I'll fix that in one of the next iterations.
>
> > + header = (struct wakeup_header *)(acpi_realmode + 0x3f00);
>
> ... especially not with magic constants like this.
Yeah. Pavel, what's at 0x3f00, btw?
> If you're putting the "header" at the end, then you should also replace
> the end_signature stuff since that's, then, redundant.
In fact, I'd prefer to remove .signature from the header and use the
end_signature only, so that I can use struct wakeup_header for addressing
the header fields in the assembly too.
> Furthermore, by doing so, you're also padding the binary out to its maximum
> length, so you might as well just remove the .bss-clearing stuff.
Do you mean placing the header at the end will fill the area between it and the
code with zeros, so the .bss clearing is not necessary?
> It's not really clear to me why to do this what way...
>
> > + if (header->signature != 0x51ee1111) {
> > + printk(KERN_ERR "wakeup header does not match\n");
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + }
> > +
> > + header->video_mode = saved_video_mode;
> > +
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
> > + store_gdt(&header->pmode_gdt);
> > +
> > + header->pmode_efer_low = nx_enabled;
> > + if (header->pmode_efer_low & 1) {
> > + /* This is strange, why not save efer, always? */
> > + rdmsr(MSR_EFER, header->pmode_efer_low,
> > + header->pmode_efer_high);
> > + }
>
> Yes, why not save EFER every time?
Well, I think we can do that.
Rafael
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