From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>,
stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, cardoe@cardoe.com,
pgnet.dev@gmail.com, ning.sun@intel.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, qiaowei.ren@intel.com,
richard.l.maliszewski@intel.com, gang.wei@intel.com,
fu.wei@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/16] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 11:28:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5746CFBC.1070205@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160525163441.GK5490@olila.local.net-space.pl>
>>> @@ -34,6 +57,42 @@ multiboot1_header_start: /*** MULTIBOOT1 HEADER ****/
>>> .long -(MULTIBOOT_HEADER_MAGIC + MULTIBOOT_HEADER_FLAGS)
>>> multiboot1_header_end:
>>>
>>> +/*** MULTIBOOT2 HEADER ****/
>>> +/* Some ideas are taken from grub-2.00/grub-core/tests/boot/kernel-i386.S file. */
>>> + .align MULTIBOOT2_HEADER_ALIGN
>>> +
>>> +multiboot2_header_start:
>>> + /* Magic number indicating a Multiboot2 header. */
>>> + .long MULTIBOOT2_HEADER_MAGIC
>>> + /* Architecture: i386. */
>>> + .long MULTIBOOT2_ARCHITECTURE_I386
>>> + /* Multiboot2 header length. */
>>> + .long multiboot2_header_end - multiboot2_header_start
>>> + /* Multiboot2 header checksum. */
>>> + .long -(MULTIBOOT2_HEADER_MAGIC + MULTIBOOT2_ARCHITECTURE_I386 + \
>>> + (multiboot2_header_end - multiboot2_header_start))
>>> +
>>> + /* Multiboot2 information request tag. */
>>> + mb2ht_init MB2_HT(INFORMATION_REQUEST), MB2_HT(REQUIRED), \
>>> + MB2_TT(BASIC_MEMINFO), MB2_TT(MMAP)
>>> +
>>> + /* Align modules at page boundry. */
>>> + mb2ht_init MB2_HT(MODULE_ALIGN), MB2_HT(REQUIRED)
>>> +
>>> + /* Console flags tag. */
>>> + mb2ht_init MB2_HT(CONSOLE_FLAGS), MB2_HT(OPTIONAL), \
>>> + MULTIBOOT2_CONSOLE_FLAGS_EGA_TEXT_SUPPORTED
>>> +
>>> + /* Framebuffer tag. */
>>> + mb2ht_init MB2_HT(FRAMEBUFFER), MB2_HT(OPTIONAL), \
>>> + 0, /* Number of the columns - no preference. */ \
>>> + 0, /* Number of the lines - no preference. */ \
>>> + 0 /* Number of bits per pixel - no preference. */
>>> +
>>> + /* Multiboot2 header end tag. */
>>> + mb2ht_init MB2_HT(END), MB2_HT(REQUIRED)
>>> +multiboot2_header_end:
>> Imo "end" labels should always preferably be .L-prefixed, to avoid
>> them getting used by a consumer instead of another "proper" label
>> starting whatever comes next.
> Make sense, however, I am in line with multiboot1_header_end label here.
> So, if we wish .L here then we should change multiboot1_header_end label
> above too. Of course in separate patch.
The multiboot1 header is very specifically not a local label, so you can
distinguish the actual header from the 3 nops following it in the
disassembly.
~Andrew
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Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-15 12:33 [PATCH v3 00/16] x86: multiboot2 protocol support Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 01/16] x86/boot: do not create unwind tables Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 15:45 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 02/16] x86: zero BSS using stosl instead of stosb Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 13:57 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-15 15:48 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 03/16] x86/boot: call reloc() using cdecl calling convention Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 15:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-17 8:41 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-17 9:30 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-24 8:42 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 04/16] x86/boot/reloc: create generic alloc and copy functions Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 05/16] x86/boot: use %ecx instead of %eax Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 06/16] x86/boot/reloc: Rename some variables and rearrange code a bit Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 07/16] x86/boot: create *.lnk files with linker script Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 14:04 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-05-24 9:05 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-24 12:28 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-24 12:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 9:06 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-17 10:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 10:34 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 08/16] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support Daniel Kiper
2016-05-24 15:46 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 16:34 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-26 10:28 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2016-05-27 8:08 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-27 8:13 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-05-27 8:24 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-27 8:11 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 09/16] efi: explicitly define efi struct in xen/arch/x86/efi/stub.c Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 7:03 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 16:45 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-27 8:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 15:07 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-05 18:33 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-06 6:55 ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-06 10:27 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-06 12:00 ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-06 12:55 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 10/16] efi: create efi_enabled() Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 7:20 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 17:15 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-26 10:31 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-05-27 8:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 15:23 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-01 15:41 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 19:28 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 8:06 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 11/16] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 7:53 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 19:07 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-27 8:31 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 15:48 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-01 15:58 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 19:39 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 12/16 - RFC] x86/efi: create new early memory allocator Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 8:39 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 19:48 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-27 8:37 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 15:58 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-01 16:02 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 19:53 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 8:11 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 10:43 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 11:10 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 16:01 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-05 18:26 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-06 7:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-06 11:15 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 13/16 - RFC] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 9:32 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 10:29 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 21:02 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-27 9:02 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 19:03 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 8:34 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 16:12 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-03 9:26 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-03 17:06 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 14/16] x86/boot: implement early command line parser in C Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 10:33 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 21:36 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-27 9:33 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 8:15 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 8:39 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 15/16 - RFC] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 10:48 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 16/16] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for relocatable images Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 11:03 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 13:35 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-01 14:44 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 19:16 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 8:41 ` Jan Beulich
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