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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-03-28 12:05:53 -0400
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-03-27 20:05:54 -0400
commita6bd8e13034dd7d60b6f14217096efa192d0adc1 (patch)
tree23890908b06eb8357e6ce633d35df1216f5e4213 /arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
parente18b094f0faa4889b06a112da17230a10b88c815 (diff)
lguest: comment documentation update.
Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some rot and tighten some phrases. Only comments change. No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
index 95b6fbcded63..5c7cef34c9e7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
@@ -5,13 +5,20 @@
5#include <asm/thread_info.h> 5#include <asm/thread_info.h>
6#include <asm/processor-flags.h> 6#include <asm/processor-flags.h>
7 7
8/*G:020 This is where we begin: head.S notes that the boot header's platform 8/*G:020 Our story starts with the kernel booting into startup_32 in
9 * type field is "1" (lguest), so calls us here. 9 * arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S. It expects a boot header, which is created by
10 * the bootloader (the Launcher in our case).
11 *
12 * The startup_32 function does very little: it clears the uninitialized global
13 * C variables which we expect to be zero (ie. BSS) and then copies the boot
14 * header and kernel command line somewhere safe. Finally it checks the
15 * 'hardware_subarch' field. This was introduced in 2.6.24 for lguest and Xen:
16 * if it's set to '1' (lguest's assigned number), then it calls us here.
10 * 17 *
11 * WARNING: be very careful here! We're running at addresses equal to physical 18 * WARNING: be very careful here! We're running at addresses equal to physical
12 * addesses (around 0), not above PAGE_OFFSET as most code expectes 19 * addesses (around 0), not above PAGE_OFFSET as most code expectes
13 * (eg. 0xC0000000). Jumps are relative, so they're OK, but we can't touch any 20 * (eg. 0xC0000000). Jumps are relative, so they're OK, but we can't touch any
14 * data. 21 * data without remembering to subtract __PAGE_OFFSET!
15 * 22 *
16 * The .section line puts this code in .init.text so it will be discarded after 23 * The .section line puts this code in .init.text so it will be discarded after
17 * boot. */ 24 * boot. */
@@ -24,7 +31,7 @@ ENTRY(lguest_entry)
24 int $LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY 31 int $LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY
25 32
26 /* The Host put the toplevel pagetable in lguest_data.pgdir. The movsl 33 /* The Host put the toplevel pagetable in lguest_data.pgdir. The movsl
27 * instruction uses %esi implicitly as the source for the copy we' 34 * instruction uses %esi implicitly as the source for the copy we're
28 * about to do. */ 35 * about to do. */
29 movl lguest_data - __PAGE_OFFSET + LGUEST_DATA_pgdir, %esi 36 movl lguest_data - __PAGE_OFFSET + LGUEST_DATA_pgdir, %esi
30 37