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author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2008-03-28 12:05:53 -0400 |
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committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2008-03-27 20:05:54 -0400 |
commit | a6bd8e13034dd7d60b6f14217096efa192d0adc1 (patch) | |
tree | 23890908b06eb8357e6ce633d35df1216f5e4213 /arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S | |
parent | e18b094f0faa4889b06a112da17230a10b88c815 (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')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S | 15 |
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 | ||