2 * Copyright (C) 2006, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> IBM Corporation.
3 * Copyright (C) 2007, Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> SGI.
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21 * This file contains the x86-specific lguest code. It used to be all
22 * mixed in with drivers/lguest/core.c but several foolhardy code slashers
23 * wrestled most of the dependencies out to here in preparation for porting
24 * lguest to other architectures (see what I mean by foolhardy?).
26 * This also contains a couple of non-obvious setup and teardown pieces which
27 * were implemented after days of debugging pain.
29 #include <linux/kernel.h>
30 #include <linux/start_kernel.h>
31 #include <linux/string.h>
32 #include <linux/console.h>
33 #include <linux/screen_info.h>
34 #include <linux/irq.h>
35 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
36 #include <linux/clocksource.h>
37 #include <linux/clockchips.h>
38 #include <linux/cpu.h>
39 #include <linux/lguest.h>
40 #include <linux/lguest_launcher.h>
41 #include <asm/paravirt.h>
42 #include <asm/param.h>
44 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
46 #include <asm/setup.h>
47 #include <asm/lguest.h>
48 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
52 static int cpu_had_pge
;
56 unsigned short segment
;
59 /* Offset from where switcher.S was compiled to where we've copied it */
60 static unsigned long switcher_offset(void)
62 return SWITCHER_ADDR
- (unsigned long)start_switcher_text
;
65 /* This cpu's struct lguest_pages. */
66 static struct lguest_pages
*lguest_pages(unsigned int cpu
)
68 return &(((struct lguest_pages
*)
69 (SWITCHER_ADDR
+ SHARED_SWITCHER_PAGES
*PAGE_SIZE
))[cpu
]);
72 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct lg_cpu
*, last_cpu
);
75 * We approach the Switcher.
77 * Remember that each CPU has two pages which are visible to the Guest when it
78 * runs on that CPU. This has to contain the state for that Guest: we copy the
79 * state in just before we run the Guest.
81 * Each Guest has "changed" flags which indicate what has changed in the Guest
82 * since it last ran. We saw this set in interrupts_and_traps.c and
85 static void copy_in_guest_info(struct lg_cpu
*cpu
, struct lguest_pages
*pages
)
88 * Copying all this data can be quite expensive. We usually run the
89 * same Guest we ran last time (and that Guest hasn't run anywhere else
90 * meanwhile). If that's not the case, we pretend everything in the
93 if (__get_cpu_var(last_cpu
) != cpu
|| cpu
->last_pages
!= pages
) {
94 __get_cpu_var(last_cpu
) = cpu
;
95 cpu
->last_pages
= pages
;
96 cpu
->changed
= CHANGED_ALL
;
100 * These copies are pretty cheap, so we do them unconditionally: */
101 /* Save the current Host top-level page directory.
103 pages
->state
.host_cr3
= __pa(current
->mm
->pgd
);
105 * Set up the Guest's page tables to see this CPU's pages (and no
106 * other CPU's pages).
108 map_switcher_in_guest(cpu
, pages
);
110 * Set up the two "TSS" members which tell the CPU what stack to use
111 * for traps which do directly into the Guest (ie. traps at privilege
114 pages
->state
.guest_tss
.sp1
= cpu
->esp1
;
115 pages
->state
.guest_tss
.ss1
= cpu
->ss1
;
117 /* Copy direct-to-Guest trap entries. */
118 if (cpu
->changed
& CHANGED_IDT
)
119 copy_traps(cpu
, pages
->state
.guest_idt
, default_idt_entries
);
121 /* Copy all GDT entries which the Guest can change. */
122 if (cpu
->changed
& CHANGED_GDT
)
123 copy_gdt(cpu
, pages
->state
.guest_gdt
);
124 /* If only the TLS entries have changed, copy them. */
125 else if (cpu
->changed
& CHANGED_GDT_TLS
)
126 copy_gdt_tls(cpu
, pages
->state
.guest_gdt
);
128 /* Mark the Guest as unchanged for next time. */
132 /* Finally: the code to actually call into the Switcher to run the Guest. */
133 static void run_guest_once(struct lg_cpu
*cpu
, struct lguest_pages
*pages
)
135 /* This is a dummy value we need for GCC's sake. */
136 unsigned int clobber
;
139 * Copy the guest-specific information into this CPU's "struct
142 copy_in_guest_info(cpu
, pages
);
145 * Set the trap number to 256 (impossible value). If we fault while
146 * switching to the Guest (bad segment registers or bug), this will
147 * cause us to abort the Guest.
149 cpu
->regs
->trapnum
= 256;
152 * Now: we push the "eflags" register on the stack, then do an "lcall".
153 * This is how we change from using the kernel code segment to using
154 * the dedicated lguest code segment, as well as jumping into the
157 * The lcall also pushes the old code segment (KERNEL_CS) onto the
158 * stack, then the address of this call. This stack layout happens to
159 * exactly match the stack layout created by an interrupt...
161 asm volatile("pushf; lcall *lguest_entry"
163 * This is how we tell GCC that %eax ("a") and %ebx ("b")
164 * are changed by this routine. The "=" means output.
166 : "=a"(clobber
), "=b"(clobber
)
168 * %eax contains the pages pointer. ("0" refers to the
169 * 0-th argument above, ie "a"). %ebx contains the
170 * physical address of the Guest's top-level page
173 : "0"(pages
), "1"(__pa(cpu
->lg
->pgdirs
[cpu
->cpu_pgd
].pgdir
))
175 * We tell gcc that all these registers could change,
176 * which means we don't have to save and restore them in
179 : "memory", "%edx", "%ecx", "%edi", "%esi");
184 * There are hooks in the scheduler which we can register to tell when we
185 * get kicked off the CPU (preempt_notifier_register()). This would allow us
186 * to lazily disable SYSENTER which would regain some performance, and should
187 * also simplify copy_in_guest_info(). Note that we'd still need to restore
188 * things when we exit to Launcher userspace, but that's fairly easy.
190 * We could also try using these hooks for PGE, but that might be too expensive.
192 * The hooks were designed for KVM, but we can also put them to good use.
196 * This is the i386-specific code to setup and run the Guest. Interrupts
197 * are disabled: we own the CPU.
199 void lguest_arch_run_guest(struct lg_cpu
*cpu
)
202 * Remember the awfully-named TS bit? If the Guest has asked to set it
203 * we set it now, so we can trap and pass that trap to the Guest if it
210 * SYSENTER is an optimized way of doing system calls. We can't allow
211 * it because it always jumps to privilege level 0. A normal Guest
212 * won't try it because we don't advertise it in CPUID, but a malicious
213 * Guest (or malicious Guest userspace program) could, so we tell the
214 * CPU to disable it before running the Guest.
216 if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SEP
))
217 wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS
, 0, 0);
220 * Now we actually run the Guest. It will return when something
221 * interesting happens, and we can examine its registers to see what it
224 run_guest_once(cpu
, lguest_pages(raw_smp_processor_id()));
227 * Note that the "regs" structure contains two extra entries which are
228 * not really registers: a trap number which says what interrupt or
229 * trap made the switcher code come back, and an error code which some
233 /* Restore SYSENTER if it's supposed to be on. */
234 if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SEP
))
235 wrmsr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS
, __KERNEL_CS
, 0);
238 * If the Guest page faulted, then the cr2 register will tell us the
239 * bad virtual address. We have to grab this now, because once we
240 * re-enable interrupts an interrupt could fault and thus overwrite
241 * cr2, or we could even move off to a different CPU.
243 if (cpu
->regs
->trapnum
== 14)
244 cpu
->arch
.last_pagefault
= read_cr2();
246 * Similarly, if we took a trap because the Guest used the FPU,
247 * we have to restore the FPU it expects to see.
248 * math_state_restore() may sleep and we may even move off to
249 * a different CPU. So all the critical stuff should be done
252 else if (cpu
->regs
->trapnum
== 7)
253 math_state_restore();
257 * Now we've examined the hypercall code; our Guest can make requests.
258 * Our Guest is usually so well behaved; it never tries to do things it isn't
259 * allowed to, and uses hypercalls instead. Unfortunately, Linux's paravirtual
260 * infrastructure isn't quite complete, because it doesn't contain replacements
261 * for the Intel I/O instructions. As a result, the Guest sometimes fumbles
262 * across one during the boot process as it probes for various things which are
263 * usually attached to a PC.
265 * When the Guest uses one of these instructions, we get a trap (General
266 * Protection Fault) and come here. We see if it's one of those troublesome
267 * instructions and skip over it. We return true if we did.
269 static int emulate_insn(struct lg_cpu
*cpu
)
272 unsigned int insnlen
= 0, in
= 0, shift
= 0;
274 * The eip contains the *virtual* address of the Guest's instruction:
275 * guest_pa just subtracts the Guest's page_offset.
277 unsigned long physaddr
= guest_pa(cpu
, cpu
->regs
->eip
);
280 * This must be the Guest kernel trying to do something, not userspace!
281 * The bottom two bits of the CS segment register are the privilege
284 if ((cpu
->regs
->cs
& 3) != GUEST_PL
)
287 /* Decoding x86 instructions is icky. */
288 insn
= lgread(cpu
, physaddr
, u8
);
291 * 0x66 is an "operand prefix". It means it's using the upper 16 bits
292 * of the eax register.
296 /* The instruction is 1 byte so far, read the next byte. */
298 insn
= lgread(cpu
, physaddr
+ insnlen
, u8
);
302 * We can ignore the lower bit for the moment and decode the 4 opcodes
303 * we need to emulate.
305 switch (insn
& 0xFE) {
306 case 0xE4: /* in <next byte>,%al */
310 case 0xEC: /* in (%dx),%al */
314 case 0xE6: /* out %al,<next byte> */
317 case 0xEE: /* out %al,(%dx) */
321 /* OK, we don't know what this is, can't emulate. */
326 * If it was an "IN" instruction, they expect the result to be read
327 * into %eax, so we change %eax. We always return all-ones, which
328 * traditionally means "there's nothing there".
331 /* Lower bit tells is whether it's a 16 or 32 bit access */
333 cpu
->regs
->eax
= 0xFFFFFFFF;
335 cpu
->regs
->eax
|= (0xFFFF << shift
);
337 /* Finally, we've "done" the instruction, so move past it. */
338 cpu
->regs
->eip
+= insnlen
;
344 * Our hypercalls mechanism used to be based on direct software interrupts.
345 * After Anthony's "Refactor hypercall infrastructure" kvm patch, we decided to
346 * change over to using kvm hypercalls.
348 * KVM_HYPERCALL is actually a "vmcall" instruction, which generates an invalid
349 * opcode fault (fault 6) on non-VT cpus, so the easiest solution seemed to be
350 * an *emulation approach*: if the fault was really produced by an hypercall
351 * (is_hypercall() does exactly this check), we can just call the corresponding
352 * hypercall host implementation function.
354 * But these invalid opcode faults are notably slower than software interrupts.
355 * So we implemented the *patching (or rewriting) approach*: every time we hit
356 * the KVM_HYPERCALL opcode in Guest code, we patch it to the old "int 0x1f"
357 * opcode, so next time the Guest calls this hypercall it will use the
358 * faster trap mechanism.
360 * Matias even benchmarked it to convince you: this shows the average cycle
361 * cost of a hypercall. For each alternative solution mentioned above we've
362 * made 5 runs of the benchmark:
364 * 1) direct software interrupt: 2915, 2789, 2764, 2721, 2898
365 * 2) emulation technique: 3410, 3681, 3466, 3392, 3780
366 * 3) patching (rewrite) technique: 2977, 2975, 2891, 2637, 2884
368 * One two-line function is worth a 20% hypercall speed boost!
370 static void rewrite_hypercall(struct lg_cpu
*cpu
)
373 * This are the opcodes we use to patch the Guest. The opcode for "int
374 * $0x1f" is "0xcd 0x1f" but vmcall instruction is 3 bytes long, so we
375 * complete the sequence with a NOP (0x90).
377 u8 insn
[3] = {0xcd, 0x1f, 0x90};
379 __lgwrite(cpu
, guest_pa(cpu
, cpu
->regs
->eip
), insn
, sizeof(insn
));
381 * The above write might have caused a copy of that page to be made
382 * (if it was read-only). We need to make sure the Guest has
383 * up-to-date pagetables. As this doesn't happen often, we can just
386 guest_pagetable_clear_all(cpu
);
389 static bool is_hypercall(struct lg_cpu
*cpu
)
394 * This must be the Guest kernel trying to do something.
395 * The bottom two bits of the CS segment register are the privilege
398 if ((cpu
->regs
->cs
& 3) != GUEST_PL
)
401 /* Is it a vmcall? */
402 __lgread(cpu
, insn
, guest_pa(cpu
, cpu
->regs
->eip
), sizeof(insn
));
403 return insn
[0] == 0x0f && insn
[1] == 0x01 && insn
[2] == 0xc1;
406 /*H:050 Once we've re-enabled interrupts, we look at why the Guest exited. */
407 void lguest_arch_handle_trap(struct lg_cpu
*cpu
)
409 switch (cpu
->regs
->trapnum
) {
410 case 13: /* We've intercepted a General Protection Fault. */
412 * Check if this was one of those annoying IN or OUT
413 * instructions which we need to emulate. If so, we just go
414 * back into the Guest after we've done it.
416 if (cpu
->regs
->errcode
== 0) {
417 if (emulate_insn(cpu
))
421 * If KVM is active, the vmcall instruction triggers a General
422 * Protection Fault. Normally it triggers an invalid opcode
427 * We need to check if ring == GUEST_PL and faulting
428 * instruction == vmcall.
430 if (is_hypercall(cpu
)) {
431 rewrite_hypercall(cpu
);
435 case 14: /* We've intercepted a Page Fault. */
437 * The Guest accessed a virtual address that wasn't mapped.
438 * This happens a lot: we don't actually set up most of the page
439 * tables for the Guest at all when we start: as it runs it asks
440 * for more and more, and we set them up as required. In this
441 * case, we don't even tell the Guest that the fault happened.
443 * The errcode tells whether this was a read or a write, and
444 * whether kernel or userspace code.
446 if (demand_page(cpu
, cpu
->arch
.last_pagefault
,
451 * OK, it's really not there (or not OK): the Guest needs to
452 * know. We write out the cr2 value so it knows where the
455 * Note that if the Guest were really messed up, this could
456 * happen before it's done the LHCALL_LGUEST_INIT hypercall, so
457 * lg->lguest_data could be NULL
459 if (cpu
->lg
->lguest_data
&&
460 put_user(cpu
->arch
.last_pagefault
,
461 &cpu
->lg
->lguest_data
->cr2
))
462 kill_guest(cpu
, "Writing cr2");
464 case 7: /* We've intercepted a Device Not Available fault. */
466 * If the Guest doesn't want to know, we already restored the
467 * Floating Point Unit, so we just continue without telling it.
474 * These values mean a real interrupt occurred, in which case
475 * the Host handler has already been run. We just do a
476 * friendly check if another process should now be run, then
477 * return to run the Guest again
481 case LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY
:
483 * Our 'struct hcall_args' maps directly over our regs: we set
484 * up the pointer now to indicate a hypercall is pending.
486 cpu
->hcall
= (struct hcall_args
*)cpu
->regs
;
490 /* We didn't handle the trap, so it needs to go to the Guest. */
491 if (!deliver_trap(cpu
, cpu
->regs
->trapnum
))
493 * If the Guest doesn't have a handler (either it hasn't
494 * registered any yet, or it's one of the faults we don't let
495 * it handle), it dies with this cryptic error message.
497 kill_guest(cpu
, "unhandled trap %li at %#lx (%#lx)",
498 cpu
->regs
->trapnum
, cpu
->regs
->eip
,
499 cpu
->regs
->trapnum
== 14 ? cpu
->arch
.last_pagefault
500 : cpu
->regs
->errcode
);
504 * Now we can look at each of the routines this calls, in increasing order of
505 * complexity: do_hypercalls(), emulate_insn(), maybe_do_interrupt(),
506 * deliver_trap() and demand_page(). After all those, we'll be ready to
507 * examine the Switcher, and our philosophical understanding of the Host/Guest
508 * duality will be complete.
510 static void adjust_pge(void *on
)
513 write_cr4(read_cr4() | X86_CR4_PGE
);
515 write_cr4(read_cr4() & ~X86_CR4_PGE
);
519 * Now the Switcher is mapped and every thing else is ready, we need to do
520 * some more i386-specific initialization.
522 void __init
lguest_arch_host_init(void)
527 * Most of the i386/switcher.S doesn't care that it's been moved; on
528 * Intel, jumps are relative, and it doesn't access any references to
529 * external code or data.
531 * The only exception is the interrupt handlers in switcher.S: their
532 * addresses are placed in a table (default_idt_entries), so we need to
533 * update the table with the new addresses. switcher_offset() is a
534 * convenience function which returns the distance between the
535 * compiled-in switcher code and the high-mapped copy we just made.
537 for (i
= 0; i
< IDT_ENTRIES
; i
++)
538 default_idt_entries
[i
] += switcher_offset();
541 * Set up the Switcher's per-cpu areas.
543 * Each CPU gets two pages of its own within the high-mapped region
544 * (aka. "struct lguest_pages"). Much of this can be initialized now,
545 * but some depends on what Guest we are running (which is set up in
546 * copy_in_guest_info()).
548 for_each_possible_cpu(i
) {
549 /* lguest_pages() returns this CPU's two pages. */
550 struct lguest_pages
*pages
= lguest_pages(i
);
551 /* This is a convenience pointer to make the code neater. */
552 struct lguest_ro_state
*state
= &pages
->state
;
555 * The Global Descriptor Table: the Host has a different one
556 * for each CPU. We keep a descriptor for the GDT which says
557 * where it is and how big it is (the size is actually the last
558 * byte, not the size, hence the "-1").
560 state
->host_gdt_desc
.size
= GDT_SIZE
-1;
561 state
->host_gdt_desc
.address
= (long)get_cpu_gdt_table(i
);
564 * All CPUs on the Host use the same Interrupt Descriptor
565 * Table, so we just use store_idt(), which gets this CPU's IDT
568 store_idt(&state
->host_idt_desc
);
571 * The descriptors for the Guest's GDT and IDT can be filled
572 * out now, too. We copy the GDT & IDT into ->guest_gdt and
573 * ->guest_idt before actually running the Guest.
575 state
->guest_idt_desc
.size
= sizeof(state
->guest_idt
)-1;
576 state
->guest_idt_desc
.address
= (long)&state
->guest_idt
;
577 state
->guest_gdt_desc
.size
= sizeof(state
->guest_gdt
)-1;
578 state
->guest_gdt_desc
.address
= (long)&state
->guest_gdt
;
581 * We know where we want the stack to be when the Guest enters
582 * the Switcher: in pages->regs. The stack grows upwards, so
583 * we start it at the end of that structure.
585 state
->guest_tss
.sp0
= (long)(&pages
->regs
+ 1);
587 * And this is the GDT entry to use for the stack: we keep a
588 * couple of special LGUEST entries.
590 state
->guest_tss
.ss0
= LGUEST_DS
;
593 * x86 can have a finegrained bitmap which indicates what I/O
594 * ports the process can use. We set it to the end of our
595 * structure, meaning "none".
597 state
->guest_tss
.io_bitmap_base
= sizeof(state
->guest_tss
);
600 * Some GDT entries are the same across all Guests, so we can
603 setup_default_gdt_entries(state
);
604 /* Most IDT entries are the same for all Guests, too.*/
605 setup_default_idt_entries(state
, default_idt_entries
);
608 * The Host needs to be able to use the LGUEST segments on this
609 * CPU, too, so put them in the Host GDT.
611 get_cpu_gdt_table(i
)[GDT_ENTRY_LGUEST_CS
] = FULL_EXEC_SEGMENT
;
612 get_cpu_gdt_table(i
)[GDT_ENTRY_LGUEST_DS
] = FULL_SEGMENT
;
616 * In the Switcher, we want the %cs segment register to use the
617 * LGUEST_CS GDT entry: we've put that in the Host and Guest GDTs, so
618 * it will be undisturbed when we switch. To change %cs and jump we
619 * need this structure to feed to Intel's "lcall" instruction.
621 lguest_entry
.offset
= (long)switch_to_guest
+ switcher_offset();
622 lguest_entry
.segment
= LGUEST_CS
;
625 * Finally, we need to turn off "Page Global Enable". PGE is an
626 * optimization where page table entries are specially marked to show
627 * they never change. The Host kernel marks all the kernel pages this
628 * way because it's always present, even when userspace is running.
630 * Lguest breaks this: unbeknownst to the rest of the Host kernel, we
631 * switch to the Guest kernel. If you don't disable this on all CPUs,
632 * you'll get really weird bugs that you'll chase for two days.
634 * I used to turn PGE off every time we switched to the Guest and back
635 * on when we return, but that slowed the Switcher down noticibly.
639 * We don't need the complexity of CPUs coming and going while we're
643 if (cpu_has_pge
) { /* We have a broader idea of "global". */
644 /* Remember that this was originally set (for cleanup). */
647 * adjust_pge is a helper function which sets or unsets the PGE
648 * bit on its CPU, depending on the argument (0 == unset).
650 on_each_cpu(adjust_pge
, (void *)0, 1);
651 /* Turn off the feature in the global feature set. */
652 clear_cpu_cap(&boot_cpu_data
, X86_FEATURE_PGE
);
658 void __exit
lguest_arch_host_fini(void)
660 /* If we had PGE before we started, turn it back on now. */
663 set_cpu_cap(&boot_cpu_data
, X86_FEATURE_PGE
);
664 /* adjust_pge's argument "1" means set PGE. */
665 on_each_cpu(adjust_pge
, (void *)1, 1);
671 /*H:122 The i386-specific hypercalls simply farm out to the right functions. */
672 int lguest_arch_do_hcall(struct lg_cpu
*cpu
, struct hcall_args
*args
)
674 switch (args
->arg0
) {
675 case LHCALL_LOAD_GDT_ENTRY
:
676 load_guest_gdt_entry(cpu
, args
->arg1
, args
->arg2
, args
->arg3
);
678 case LHCALL_LOAD_IDT_ENTRY
:
679 load_guest_idt_entry(cpu
, args
->arg1
, args
->arg2
, args
->arg3
);
681 case LHCALL_LOAD_TLS
:
682 guest_load_tls(cpu
, args
->arg1
);
685 /* Bad Guest. Bad! */
691 /*H:126 i386-specific hypercall initialization: */
692 int lguest_arch_init_hypercalls(struct lg_cpu
*cpu
)
697 * The pointer to the Guest's "struct lguest_data" is the only argument.
698 * We check that address now.
700 if (!lguest_address_ok(cpu
->lg
, cpu
->hcall
->arg1
,
701 sizeof(*cpu
->lg
->lguest_data
)))
705 * Having checked it, we simply set lg->lguest_data to point straight
706 * into the Launcher's memory at the right place and then use
707 * copy_to_user/from_user from now on, instead of lgread/write. I put
708 * this in to show that I'm not immune to writing stupid
711 cpu
->lg
->lguest_data
= cpu
->lg
->mem_base
+ cpu
->hcall
->arg1
;
714 * We insist that the Time Stamp Counter exist and doesn't change with
715 * cpu frequency. Some devious chip manufacturers decided that TSC
716 * changes could be handled in software. I decided that time going
717 * backwards might be good for benchmarks, but it's bad for users.
719 * We also insist that the TSC be stable: the kernel detects unreliable
720 * TSCs for its own purposes, and we use that here.
722 if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC
) && !check_tsc_unstable())
726 if (put_user(tsc_speed
, &cpu
->lg
->lguest_data
->tsc_khz
))
729 /* The interrupt code might not like the system call vector. */
730 if (!check_syscall_vector(cpu
->lg
))
731 kill_guest(cpu
, "bad syscall vector");
738 * lguest_arch_setup_regs()
740 * Most of the Guest's registers are left alone: we used get_zeroed_page() to
741 * allocate the structure, so they will be 0.
743 void lguest_arch_setup_regs(struct lg_cpu
*cpu
, unsigned long start
)
745 struct lguest_regs
*regs
= cpu
->regs
;
748 * There are four "segment" registers which the Guest needs to boot:
749 * The "code segment" register (cs) refers to the kernel code segment
750 * __KERNEL_CS, and the "data", "extra" and "stack" segment registers
751 * refer to the kernel data segment __KERNEL_DS.
753 * The privilege level is packed into the lower bits. The Guest runs
754 * at privilege level 1 (GUEST_PL).
756 regs
->ds
= regs
->es
= regs
->ss
= __KERNEL_DS
|GUEST_PL
;
757 regs
->cs
= __KERNEL_CS
|GUEST_PL
;
760 * The "eflags" register contains miscellaneous flags. Bit 1 (0x002)
761 * is supposed to always be "1". Bit 9 (0x200) controls whether
762 * interrupts are enabled. We always leave interrupts enabled while
765 regs
->eflags
= X86_EFLAGS_IF
| 0x2;
768 * The "Extended Instruction Pointer" register says where the Guest is
774 * %esi points to our boot information, at physical address 0, so don't
778 /* There are a couple of GDT entries the Guest expects at boot. */
779 setup_guest_gdt(cpu
);