Prefer using the character device over the proc file if the character
device exists.
CC: Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimts...@oracle.com>
CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabell...@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com
- 14.04
14.04 here would imply he's running some Ubuntu for ARM build. Ubuntu
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ell? That's where we ran into the issue
>> in the first place.
>
> That how I did understand it, so I've queued this already, but for
> it to become eligible to applying to 4.9 it first needs to pass the
> push gate on master.
>
> Jan
>
Of
an,
Can you queue this for 4.9 as well? That's where we ran into the issue
in the first place.
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gt;>>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 02:40:41PM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>>>>> The EFI multiboot2 entry point currently requires EFI BootServices to
>>>>>> not have been exited however the header currently tells the boot
>>>>>> loader tha
his. I do recall bringing this up at a meet up a while
back and the concern was breaking someone's workflow. Maybe we can put a
warning that the behavior is deprecated for X number of releases before
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On 10/24/17 3:22 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 24/10/17 21:08, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 02:40:41PM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>> The EFI multiboot2 entry point currently requires EFI BootServices to
>>> not have been exited however the head
On 10/24/17 3:08 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 02:40:41PM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately the spec is a bit vague and how I am reading it is:
>> - no tag = exit boot services in the boot loader
>> - tag present marked optional = boo
On 10/24/17 3:08 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 02:40:41PM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> The EFI multiboot2 entry point currently requires EFI BootServices to
>> not have been exited however the header currently tells the boot
>> loader that Xen op
loader to report an error that it cannot boot Xen if
it is unable to meet its needs.
Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
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This should likely be applied against Xen 4.9 and Xen 4.10 as well as
staging. I am trying to get multiboot2 support for iPXE and upstream
is con
vid and I are both ok with you changing the wording as necessary. I
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s loop of the first character. This adds
a simple increment.
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
Signed-off-by: David Esler <drumandst...@gmail.com>
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1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S b
From: David Esler <drumandst...@gmail.com>
The send_chr function sends an entire C-string and not one character and
doesn't necessarily just send it over the serial UART anymore so rename
it to print_err so that its closer in name to what it does.
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@c
On 10/13/17 2:40 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 12.10.17 at 22:56, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote:
>> On 12/10/2017 21:50, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>> From: David Esler <drumandst...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> The send_chr function sends
> On Oct 12, 2017, at 4:27 PM, Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 03:50:06PM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> From: David Esler <drumandst...@gmail.com>
>>
>> In 9180f5365524 a change was made to the send_chr func
s loop of the first character. This adds
a simple increment.
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
Signed-off-by: David Esler <drumandst...@gmail.com>
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1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S b/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.
From: David Esler <drumandst...@gmail.com>
The send_chr function sends an entire C-string and not one character and
doesn't necessarily just send it over the serial UART anymore so rename
it to print_err so that its closer in name to what it does.
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@c
On 10/10/17 4:15 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> The stock compiler in travis doesn't support -fsanitize=undefined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
> ---
> Cc: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
> ---
> xen/tools/kconfig/allrandom.config | 1 +
> 1 fi
On 6/27/17 4:53 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
> ---
> Cc: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
> ---
> .travis.yml | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> index 9121fcca40
.
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ugh test gate and landed in master.
> So, this way we have full multiboot2 support in Xen. This means that
> you can boot Xen using GRUB2 on EFI platforms.
>
> I would like to thank everybody who helped me to make it happen.
> Especially Jan who patiently reviewed whole series many times
> and replied for my stupid questions.
>
> Daniel
>
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On 3/15/17 9:38 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 09:27:27AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> On 3/15/17 6:35 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 02:02:49PM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>&
On 3/15/17 6:35 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 02:02:49PM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Still missing 'xl info'.
>
> Got Intel NUC5i3MYHE (internally it is NUC5i3MYBE board) into my hands.
> I have put 8 GiB RAM and 500 GB SATA
On 3/7/17 9:44 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 12:39:04AM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 09:04:17AM -0800, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I'm currently at ELC and then on vacation so I don't ha
On 2/24/17 10:14 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 24/02/17 17:06, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> On 2/22/17 1:53 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> On 20/02/17 16:19, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>>> On 20/02/17 14:43, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>>> On 20/02/17 15:31, Wei Li
witch over to --runstatedir when a new autoconf version is
>available
>
> I'm in favor of (3.).
>
>
> Juergen
FWIW, many distros have already pulled the patch into their autoconf so
its available so you wouldn't really have to do anything.
Debian:
un instead of /var/run via configure
>> 2. patch autoconf to support --runstatedir
>> 3. take this patch adding support via --with-rundir and possibly
>>switch over to --runstatedir when a new autoconf version is
>>available
>
> Option 3 but we need to have that for
-chardev socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=25914,id=S0,server,nowait
-device isa-serial,chardev=S0 -device piix3-usb-uhci -device usb-tablet
-netdev id=net0,type=tap -device
virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mac=52:54:00:12:34:56 -boot order=n -device
qxl-vga -gdb tcp::14952
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ever sees more than the boot CPU. I'd
recommend using QEMU master since they landed some fixes so that the
debugger can handle switching from 64-bit to 32-bit and back again.
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a bootloader called us using __efi64_mb2_start
> we are sure that we are running on EFI platform and there is no VGA there.
> It means that we can safely zap vga_text_buffer unconditionally in first steps
> (we do that in second instruction). Then we do not need to take care about
> th
than I was going to originally submit, I
had used runtime.o but while testing this I saw Daniel Kiper's v14 of
his multiboot2 series come along and I modified my patch so that he
would not have to rebase.
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> Xen binary which can be loaded by three boot protocols: EFI native loader,
>> multiboot (v1) and multiboot2.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
>> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <
last time? I know Jan and I
appreciated that and it made it easier to review.
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What happened with this series? Some of these patches still appear
un-applied and they appear relevant still.
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change asm "g" constraint to "rm" in efi_multiboot2()
> (suggested by Jan Beulich),
> - improve comments
> (suggested by Jan Beulich and Doug Goldstein).
This is a huge change and would really be helpful to have
On 1/23/17 9:45 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 09:35:55AM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> On 1/23/17 7:08 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:54:12PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 02:42:30PM -0500, Doug
On 1/23/17 8:28 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:08:58PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:54:12PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 02:42:30PM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>>> On 1/19/
On 1/23/17 7:08 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:54:12PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 02:42:30PM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>> On 1/19/17 8:34 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am
On 1/20/17 2:42 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Effectively the fix to efi_multiboot2() gets us back to the same level
> of hardware support that v11 + my v5 was at for 1-5. So I will extend my:
>
> Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
> Tested-by: Doug Goldste
(since patch 1 has
already gone in) and apply the fix to efi_multiboot2() then all the
machines I presently have access to boot.
Effectively the fix to efi_multiboot2() gets us back to the same level
of hardware support that v11 + my v5 was at for 1-5. So I will extend my:
Reviewed-by: Doug
return cfg.addr + MBI_SIZE;
I can't see how this booted for you with OVMF because for all the
different versions I've tried with the original code its writing over
reserved memory that QEMU uses for the graphics buffers. Which
immediately results in the trampolines being overwritten with consol
On 1/20/17 12:21 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:22:21AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> On 1/19/17 8:34 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am sending twelfth version of multiboot2 protocol support for
>>> legacy BIOS
- rename __efi64_start to __efi64_mb2_start
> (suggested by Andrew Cooper),
Andrew actually asked for __mb2_efi64_start
> +
> +__efi64_mb2_start:
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> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
> Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
> ---
> v12 - suggestions/fixes:
> - replace TABs with spaces in xen/include/xen/multiboot2.h
> (suggested by Doug Goldst
On 1/20/17 12:21 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:22:21AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> On 1/19/17 8:34 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am sending twelfth version of multiboot2 protocol support for
>>> legacy BIOS
On 1/20/17 11:37 AM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On 1/19/17 8:34 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>> diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/boot/Makefile b/xen/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
>> index 5fdb5ae..6d20646 100644
>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
>&g
So when this was patch 8 this previously had:
+RELOC_DEPS = $(DEFS_H_DEPS) $(BASEDIR)/include/xen/multiboot.h \
+$(BASEDIR)/include/xen/multiboot2.h
Which its now moved to patch 1 so obviously can't include multiboot2.h
but then patch 2 in this series fails to add this and patch 5 fails to
a
boot with iPXE
and grub on an Intel NUC and another board I've got. I've also just
tried to apply 1-5 and it fails to boot as well.
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size = MB_TRAMPOLINE_SIZE + MB_TRAMPOLINE_STACK_SIZE + MBI_SIZE;
Why MBI_SIZE? I don't see that being copied in that region or living there?
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nore it and everything works as usual.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
> Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
FWIW, I can't find where I offered my R-b for this patch. Its part of
the series
hysical address.
>
> There is no functional change.
>
> Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
> Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
F
On 1/19/17 8:34 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> ..calculating its value during runtime.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
> Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
FWIW, I can't find where I o
g.
> It is no longer needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
> Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
FWIW, I can't find where I offered my R-b for this patch. Its part of
th
nd some
basic multiboot2 support since we've had this series outstanding for
years. I was just trying to help this series move forward and believe we
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a dozen machines all together. They fail in two different ways:
- the other CPUs are reported as stuck and the machine boots but 'xl
info' reports 1 available CPU.
- when the non-CPUs are brought up it dies when setting paging back into
cr0.
Every single machine fails in one of these t
The only call to have_wrcomb() was always to the generic implementation.
positive_have_wrcomb() was unused.
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Retaining ACK from <57b480fd027800106...@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
---
These weren't used so drop them.
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---
xen/arch/x86/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h | 15 ---
1 file changed, 15
This field is always only 1 currently but may allow 0 in the future so
convert it to a bool to provide proper range checking by the compiler.
Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
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xen/arch/x86/cpu/mtrr/generic.c | 2 +-
xen/arch/x86/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h| 4 ++--
2 files chan
Retained the parts that were not objected to by plans to disable mtrrs on
PVH containers.
Doug Goldstein (3):
x86/mtrr: drop positive_have_wrcomb()
x86/mtrr: drop unused func prototypes and struct
x86/mtrr: convert use_intel_if u32 to bool
xen/arch/x86/cpu/mtrr/generic.c | 7 +--
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> Leaves 0x8002 through 0x8004 are plain ASCII text, and require no
> specific recalculation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
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plicated according to the
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> Calculate a domains x86_vendor early in recalculate_cpuid_policy(); subsequent
> patches need to make other recalculation decisions based on it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
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Xen ELF using just simple objcopy or other tool. This way we will have one
Xen binary which can be loaded by three boot protocols: EFI native loader,
multiboot (v1) and multiboot2.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Review
ed
Daniel Kiper (4):
x86: add multiboot2 protocol support
efi: build xen.gz with EFI code
efi: create new early memory allocator
x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms
Doug Goldstein (1):
fix: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms
xen/arch/x8
not
manifest as a crash while on others it did. Reworked the
changes to always reserve 64kb for both the stack and the size
of the trampolines. Added a build time assert to make sure we have
enough room always.
Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...
ulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
---
Doug v1 - removed stale paragraph
v11 - suggestions/fixes:
- #ifdef only EBMALLOC_SIZE from ebmalloc machinery
(suggested by Jan Beulich).
v10 - s
From: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
This way Xen can be loaded on EFI platforms using GRUB2 and
other boot loaders which support multiboot2 protocol.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
Tested-by: D
daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
---
v9 - suggestions/fixes:
- use .L label instead of numeric one in multiboot2 data scanning loop;
I hope that this change does not invalidate Jan's Reviewed-b
sier than folding this into your larger series.
Can you tell me what were the fixes to the relocation code?
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> On 18/01/17 14:17, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S b/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S
>> index d423fd8..ac93df0 100644
>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S
>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S
>> @@ -89,6
t; options used during boot.
>
> ~Andrew
FWIW, some of the clang issues I reported against LTO and FPU bits are
marked as fixed in 3.9 and 4.0. Not sure if things got backported.
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This way Xen can be loaded on EFI platforms using GRUB2 and
other boot loaders which support multiboot2 protocol.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
Tested-by: D
ulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
---
Doug v1 - removed stale paragraph
v11 - suggestions/fixes:
- #ifdef only EBMALLOC_SIZE from ebmalloc machinery
(suggested by Jan Beulich).
v10 - s
not
manifest as a crash while on others it did. Reworked the
changes to always reserve 64kb for both the stack and the size
of the trampolines. Added a build time assert to make sure we have
enough room always.
Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
---
Doug v4 - change wording around
daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
---
v9 - suggestions/fixes:
- use .L label instead of numeric one in multiboot2 data scanning loop;
I hope that this change does not invalidate Jan's Reviewed-b
om
Xen ELF using just simple objcopy or other tool. This way we will have one
Xen binary which can be loaded by three boot protocols: EFI native loader,
multiboot (v1) and multiboot2.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Review
ild xen.gz with EFI code
efi: create new early memory allocator
x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms
Doug Goldstein (1):
fix: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms
xen/arch/x86/Makefile | 2 +-
xen/arch/x86/boot/Makefile| 3 +-
xen/arc
d
>> just remove this.
>
> Well, I don't mind the max() (albeit it's not very useful, especially
> if trampoline size would ever get pretty close to 64k). And as said
> in reply to the earlier version - I think this would better be checked
> at build time (see the various
>> +cfg.size = max_t(UINTN, 64 << 10,
>> +(trampoline_end - trampoline_start) + 4096);
>
> Considering the consuming code further up, I don't understand the
> reason for the addition of 4096 here. And if there is a reason, I'm
> pretty sure you actually mean PAG
not
manifest as a crash while on others it did. Reworked the
changes to always reserve 64kb for both the stack and the size
of the trampolines.
Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
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Doug v3 - drop ASSERTs since they are runtime
ulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
---
Doug v1 - removed stale paragraph
v11 - suggestions/fixes:
- #ifdef only EBMALLOC_SIZE from ebmalloc machinery
(suggested by Jan Beulich).
v10 - s
daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
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v9 - suggestions/fixes:
- use .L label instead of numeric one in multiboot2 data scanning loop;
I hope that this change does not invalidate Jan's Reviewed-b
From: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
This way Xen can be loaded on EFI platforms using GRUB2 and
other boot loaders which support multiboot2 protocol.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
Tested-by: D
x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms
Doug Goldstein (1):
fix: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms
xen/arch/x86/Makefile | 2 +-
xen/arch/x86/boot/Makefile| 3 +-
xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S | 361 +--
xen/arc
om
Xen ELF using just simple objcopy or other tool. This way we will have one
Xen binary which can be loaded by three boot protocols: EFI native loader,
multiboot (v1) and multiboot2.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Review
rodata,
> which allows all users to generate code referencing the data directly.
>
> No functional change, but causes smaller and more efficient compiled code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.co
On 1/16/17 9:11 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 08:41:08AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> On 1/16/17 7:50 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 05:02:05AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>> On 13.01.17 at 20:21, <car
not
manifest as a crash while on others it did. Reworked the
changes to always reserve 64kb for both the stack and the size
of the trampolines. Added an ASSERT to make sure we never blow
through this size.
Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@c
ly dropped
Daniel Kiper (4):
x86: add multiboot2 protocol support
efi: build xen.gz with EFI code
efi: create new early memory allocator
x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms
Doug Goldstein (1):
fix: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms
xen/arch/x8
From: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
This way Xen can be loaded on EFI platforms using GRUB2 and
other boot loaders which support multiboot2 protocol.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
Tested-by: D
daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
---
v9 - suggestions/fixes:
- use .L label instead of numeric one in multiboot2 data scanning loop;
I hope that this change does not invalidate Jan's Reviewed-b
om
Xen ELF using just simple objcopy or other tool. This way we will have one
Xen binary which can be loaded by three boot protocols: EFI native loader,
multiboot (v1) and multiboot2.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Review
ulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <car...@cardoe.com>
---
Doug v1 - removed stale paragraph
v11 - suggestions/fixes:
- #ifdef only EBMALLOC_SIZE from ebmalloc machinery
(suggested by Jan Beulich).
v10 - s
y chunks starting from the lowest address. After init phase we can
>> free unused portion of the memory pool as in case of .init.text or
>> .init.data
>> sections. This way we do not need to allocate any space in image file and
>> freeing of unused area in the memor
n would require me to either inter-diff the patches,
> or re-review the whole thing. For a large patch like this it would be
> rather helpful to be quite a bit more specific as to where exactly in the
> patch changes were made.
>
> Jan
>
I'll submit a diff against v11 to help s
comments posted by Doug for v11.
>
> Daniel
>
Why? They're the first 4 patches remaining of your series. It'll
literally be the following commands:
git fetch origin
git rebase origin/staging
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y pool is very simple.
Now #2a solution is implemented because it is quite simple and requires
limited number of changes, especially in __start_xen().
The new allocator is quite generic and can be used on ARM platforms too.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Do
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