include/xen/interface/elfnote.h

   1 /******************************************************************************
   2  * elfnote.h
   3  *
   4  * Definitions used for the Xen ELF notes.
   5  *
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  24  * Copyright (c) 2006, Ian Campbell, XenSource Ltd.
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  26
  27 #ifndef __XEN_PUBLIC_ELFNOTE_H__
  28 #define __XEN_PUBLIC_ELFNOTE_H__
  29
  30 /*
  31  * The notes should live in a SHT_NOTE segment and have "Xen" in the
  32  * name field.
  33  *
  34  * Numeric types are either 4 or 8 bytes depending on the content of
  35  * the desc field.
  36  *
  37  * LEGACY indicated the fields in the legacy __xen_guest string which
  38  * this a note type replaces.
  39  *
  40  * String values (for non-legacy) are NULL terminated ASCII, also known
  41  * as ASCIZ type.
  42  */
  43
  44 /*
  45  * NAME=VALUE pair (string).
  46  */
  47 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_INFO           0
  48
  49 /*
  50  * The virtual address of the entry point (numeric).
  51  *
  52  * LEGACY: VIRT_ENTRY
  53  */
  54 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_ENTRY          1
  55
  56 /* The virtual address of the hypercall transfer page (numeric).
  57  *
  58  * LEGACY: HYPERCALL_PAGE. (n.b. legacy value is a physical page
  59  * number not a virtual address)
  60  */
  61 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_HYPERCALL_PAGE 2
  62
  63 /* The virtual address where the kernel image should be mapped (numeric).
  64  *
  65  * Defaults to 0.
  66  *
  67  * LEGACY: VIRT_BASE
  68  */
  69 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_VIRT_BASE      3
  70
  71 /*
  72  * The offset of the ELF paddr field from the acutal required
  73  * pseudo-physical address (numeric).
  74  *
  75  * This is used to maintain backwards compatibility with older kernels
  76  * which wrote __PAGE_OFFSET into that field. This field defaults to 0
  77  * if not present.
  78  *
  79  * LEGACY: ELF_PADDR_OFFSET. (n.b. legacy default is VIRT_BASE)
  80  */
  81 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_PADDR_OFFSET   4
  82
  83 /*
  84  * The version of Xen that we work with (string).
  85  *
  86  * LEGACY: XEN_VER
  87  */
  88 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_XEN_VERSION    5
  89
  90 /*
  91  * The name of the guest operating system (string).
  92  *
  93  * LEGACY: GUEST_OS
  94  */
  95 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_GUEST_OS       6
  96
  97 /*
  98  * The version of the guest operating system (string).
  99  *
 100  * LEGACY: GUEST_VER
 101  */
 102 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_GUEST_VERSION  7
 103
 104 /*
 105  * The loader type (string).
 106  *
 107  * LEGACY: LOADER
 108  */
 109 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_LOADER         8
 110
 111 /*
 112  * The kernel supports PAE (x86/32 only, string = "yes" or "no").
 113  *
 114  * LEGACY: PAE (n.b. The legacy interface included a provision to
 115  * indicate 'extended-cr3' support allowing L3 page tables to be
 116  * placed above 4G. It is assumed that any kernel new enough to use
 117  * these ELF notes will include this and therefore "yes" here is
 118  * equivalent to "yes[entended-cr3]" in the __xen_guest interface.
 119  */
 120 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_PAE_MODE       9
 121
 122 /*
 123  * The features supported/required by this kernel (string).
 124  *
 125  * The string must consist of a list of feature names (as given in
 126  * features.h, without the "XENFEAT_" prefix) separated by '|'
 127  * characters. If a feature is required for the kernel to function
 128  * then the feature name must be preceded by a '!' character.
 129  *
 130  * LEGACY: FEATURES
 131  */
 132 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_FEATURES      10
 133
 134 /*
 135  * The kernel requires the symbol table to be loaded (string = "yes" or "no")
 136  * LEGACY: BSD_SYMTAB (n.b. The legacy treated the presence or absence
 137  * of this string as a boolean flag rather than requiring "yes" or
 138  * "no".
 139  */
 140 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_BSD_SYMTAB    11
 141
 142 /*
 143  * The lowest address the hypervisor hole can begin at (numeric).
 144  *
 145  * This must not be set higher than HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START. Its presence
 146  * also indicates to the hypervisor that the kernel can deal with the
 147  * hole starting at a higher address.
 148  */
 149 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_HV_START_LOW  12
 150
 151 /*
 152  * List of maddr_t-sized mask/value pairs describing how to recognize
 153  * (non-present) L1 page table entries carrying valid MFNs (numeric).
 154  */
 155 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_L1_MFN_VALID  13
 156
 157 /*
 158  * Whether or not the guest supports cooperative suspend cancellation.
 159  * This is a numeric value.
 160  *
 161  * Default is 0
 162  */
 163 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_SUSPEND_CANCEL 14
 164
 165 /*
 166  * The (non-default) location the initial phys-to-machine map should be
 167  * placed at by the hypervisor (Dom0) or the tools (DomU).
 168  * The kernel must be prepared for this mapping to be established using
 169  * large pages, despite such otherwise not being available to guests.
 170  * The kernel must also be able to handle the page table pages used for
 171  * this mapping not being accessible through the initial mapping.
 172  * (Only x86-64 supports this at present.)
 173  */
 174 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M      15
 175
 176 /*
 177  * Whether or not the guest can deal with being passed an initrd not
 178  * mapped through its initial page tables.
 179  */
 180 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_MOD_START_PFN 16
 181
 182 /*
 183  * The features supported by this kernel (numeric).
 184  *
 185  * Other than XEN_ELFNOTE_FEATURES on pre-4.2 Xen, this note allows a
 186  * kernel to specify support for features that older hypervisors don't
 187  * know about. The set of features 4.2 and newer hypervisors will
 188  * consider supported by the kernel is the combination of the sets
 189  * specified through this and the string note.
 190  *
 191  * LEGACY: FEATURES
 192  */
 193 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_SUPPORTED_FEATURES 17
 194
 195 /*
 196  * Physical entry point into the kernel.
 197  *
 198  * 32bit entry point into the kernel. When requested to launch the
 199  * guest kernel in a HVM container, Xen will use this entry point to
 200  * launch the guest in 32bit protected mode with paging disabled.
 201  * Ignored otherwise.
 202  */
 203 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_PHYS32_ENTRY 18
 204
 205 /*
 206  * The number of the highest elfnote defined.
 207  */
 208 #define XEN_ELFNOTE_MAX XEN_ELFNOTE_PHYS32_ENTRY
 209
 210 #endif /* __XEN_PUBLIC_ELFNOTE_H__ */
 211
 212 /*
 213  * Local variables:
 214  * mode: C
 215  * c-set-style: "BSD"
 216  * c-basic-offset: 4
 217  * tab-width: 4
 218  * indent-tabs-mode: nil
 219  * End:
 220  */