lguest: documentation VI: Switcher
Documentation: The Switcher Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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write_cr0(cr0|8);
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}
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/*S:010
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* We are getting close to the Switcher.
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*
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* Remember that each CPU has two pages which are visible to the Guest when it
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* runs on that CPU. This has to contain the state for that Guest: we copy the
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* state in just before we run the Guest.
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*
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* Each Guest has "changed" flags which indicate what has changed in the Guest
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* since it last ran. We saw this set in interrupts_and_traps.c and
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* segments.c.
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*/
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static void copy_in_guest_info(struct lguest *lg, struct lguest_pages *pages)
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{
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/* Copying all this data can be quite expensive. We usually run the
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* same Guest we ran last time (and that Guest hasn't run anywhere else
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* meanwhile). If that's not the case, we pretend everything in the
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* Guest has changed. */
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if (__get_cpu_var(last_guest) != lg || lg->last_pages != pages) {
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__get_cpu_var(last_guest) = lg;
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lg->last_pages = pages;
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lg->changed = CHANGED_ALL;
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}
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/* These are pretty cheap, so we do them unconditionally. */
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/* These copies are pretty cheap, so we do them unconditionally: */
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/* Save the current Host top-level page directory. */
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pages->state.host_cr3 = __pa(current->mm->pgd);
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/* Set up the Guest's page tables to see this CPU's pages (and no
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* other CPU's pages). */
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map_switcher_in_guest(lg, pages);
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/* Set up the two "TSS" members which tell the CPU what stack to use
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* for traps which do directly into the Guest (ie. traps at privilege
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* level 1). */
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pages->state.guest_tss.esp1 = lg->esp1;
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pages->state.guest_tss.ss1 = lg->ss1;
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/* Copy direct trap entries. */
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/* Copy direct-to-Guest trap entries. */
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if (lg->changed & CHANGED_IDT)
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copy_traps(lg, pages->state.guest_idt, default_idt_entries);
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/* Copy all GDT entries but the TSS. */
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/* Copy all GDT entries which the Guest can change. */
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if (lg->changed & CHANGED_GDT)
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copy_gdt(lg, pages->state.guest_gdt);
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/* If only the TLS entries have changed, copy them. */
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else if (lg->changed & CHANGED_GDT_TLS)
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copy_gdt_tls(lg, pages->state.guest_gdt);
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/* Mark the Guest as unchanged for next time. */
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lg->changed = 0;
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}
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/* Finally: the code to actually call into the Switcher to run the Guest. */
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static void run_guest_once(struct lguest *lg, struct lguest_pages *pages)
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{
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/* This is a dummy value we need for GCC's sake. */
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unsigned int clobber;
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/* Copy the guest-specific information into this CPU's "struct
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* lguest_pages". */
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copy_in_guest_info(lg, pages);
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/* Put eflags on stack, lcall does rest: suitable for iret return. */
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/* Now: we push the "eflags" register on the stack, then do an "lcall".
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* This is how we change from using the kernel code segment to using
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* the dedicated lguest code segment, as well as jumping into the
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* Switcher.
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*
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* The lcall also pushes the old code segment (KERNEL_CS) onto the
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* stack, then the address of this call. This stack layout happens to
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* exactly match the stack of an interrupt... */
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asm volatile("pushf; lcall *lguest_entry"
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/* This is how we tell GCC that %eax ("a") and %ebx ("b")
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* are changed by this routine. The "=" means output. */
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: "=a"(clobber), "=b"(clobber)
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/* %eax contains the pages pointer. ("0" refers to the
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* 0-th argument above, ie "a"). %ebx contains the
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* physical address of the Guest's top-level page
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* directory. */
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: "0"(pages), "1"(__pa(lg->pgdirs[lg->pgdidx].pgdir))
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/* We tell gcc that all these registers could change,
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* which means we don't have to save and restore them in
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* the Switcher. */
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: "memory", "%edx", "%ecx", "%edi", "%esi");
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}
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/*:*/
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/*H:030 Let's jump straight to the the main loop which runs the Guest.
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* Remember, this is called by the Launcher reading /dev/lguest, and we keep
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* are feeling invigorated and refreshed then the next, more challenging stage
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* can be found in "make Guest". :*/
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/*S:100
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* Welcome to the Switcher itself!
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*
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* This file contains the low-level code which changes the CPU to run the Guest
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* code, and returns to the Host when something happens. Understand this, and
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* you understand the heart of our journey.
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*
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* Because this is in assembler rather than C, our tale switches from prose to
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* verse. First I tried limericks:
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*
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* There once was an eax reg,
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* To which our pointer was fed,
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* It needed an add,
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* Which asm-offsets.h had
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* But this limerick is hurting my head.
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*
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* Next I tried haikus, but fitting the required reference to the seasons in
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* every stanza was quickly becoming tiresome:
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*
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* The %eax reg
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* Holds "struct lguest_pages" now:
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* Cherry blossoms fall.
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*
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* Then I started with Heroic Verse, but the rhyming requirement leeched away
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* the content density and led to some uniquely awful oblique rhymes:
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*
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* These constants are coming from struct offsets
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* For use within the asm switcher text.
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*
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* Finally, I settled for something between heroic hexameter, and normal prose
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* with inappropriate linebreaks. Anyway, it aint no Shakespeare.
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*/
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// Not all kernel headers work from assembler
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// But these ones are needed: the ENTRY() define
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// And constants extracted from struct offsets
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// To avoid magic numbers and breakage:
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// Should they change the compiler can't save us
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// Down here in the depths of assembler code.
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#include <linux/linkage.h>
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#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
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#include "lg.h"
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// We mark the start of the code to copy
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// It's placed in .text tho it's never run here
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// You'll see the trick macro at the end
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// Which interleaves data and text to effect.
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.text
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ENTRY(start_switcher_text)
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/* %eax points to lguest pages for this CPU. %ebx contains cr3 value.
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All normal registers can be clobbered! */
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// When we reach switch_to_guest we have just left
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// The safe and comforting shores of C code
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// %eax has the "struct lguest_pages" to use
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// Where we save state and still see it from the Guest
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// And %ebx holds the Guest shadow pagetable:
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// Once set we have truly left Host behind.
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ENTRY(switch_to_guest)
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/* Save host segments on host stack. */
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// We told gcc all its regs could fade,
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// Clobbered by our journey into the Guest
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// We could have saved them, if we tried
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// But time is our master and cycles count.
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// Segment registers must be saved for the Host
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// We push them on the Host stack for later
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pushl %es
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pushl %ds
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pushl %gs
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pushl %fs
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/* With CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, gcc doesn't let us clobber this! */
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// But the compiler is fickle, and heeds
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// No warning of %ebp clobbers
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// When frame pointers are used. That register
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// Must be saved and restored or chaos strikes.
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pushl %ebp
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/* Save host stack. */
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// The Host's stack is done, now save it away
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// In our "struct lguest_pages" at offset
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// Distilled into asm-offsets.h
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movl %esp, LGUEST_PAGES_host_sp(%eax)
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/* Switch to guest stack: if we get NMI we expect to be there. */
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// All saved and there's now five steps before us:
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// Stack, GDT, IDT, TSS
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// And last of all the page tables are flipped.
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// Yet beware that our stack pointer must be
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// Always valid lest an NMI hits
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// %edx does the duty here as we juggle
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// %eax is lguest_pages: our stack lies within.
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movl %eax, %edx
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addl $LGUEST_PAGES_regs, %edx
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movl %edx, %esp
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/* Switch to guest's GDT, IDT. */
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// The Guest's GDT we so carefully
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// Placed in the "struct lguest_pages" before
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lgdt LGUEST_PAGES_guest_gdt_desc(%eax)
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// The Guest's IDT we did partially
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// Move to the "struct lguest_pages" as well.
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lidt LGUEST_PAGES_guest_idt_desc(%eax)
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/* Switch to guest's TSS while GDT still writable. */
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// The TSS entry which controls traps
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// Must be loaded up with "ltr" now:
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// For after we switch over our page tables
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// It (as the rest) will be writable no more.
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// (The GDT entry TSS needs
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// Changes type when we load it: damn Intel!)
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movl $(GDT_ENTRY_TSS*8), %edx
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ltr %dx
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/* Set host's TSS GDT entry to available (clear byte 5 bit 2). */
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// Look back now, before we take this last step!
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// The Host's TSS entry was also marked used;
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// Let's clear it again, ere we return.
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// The GDT descriptor of the Host
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// Points to the table after two "size" bytes
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movl (LGUEST_PAGES_host_gdt_desc+2)(%eax), %edx
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// Clear the type field of "used" (byte 5, bit 2)
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andb $0xFD, (GDT_ENTRY_TSS*8 + 5)(%edx)
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/* Switch to guest page tables: lguest_pages->state now read-only. */
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// Once our page table's switched, the Guest is live!
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// The Host fades as we run this final step.
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// Our "struct lguest_pages" is now read-only.
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movl %ebx, %cr3
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/* Restore guest regs */
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// The page table change did one tricky thing:
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// The Guest's register page has been mapped
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// Writable onto our %esp (stack) --
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// We can simply pop off all Guest regs.
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popl %ebx
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popl %ecx
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popl %edx
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popl %fs
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popl %ds
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popl %es
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/* Skip error code and trap number */
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// Near the base of the stack lurk two strange fields
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// Which we fill as we exit the Guest
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// These are the trap number and its error
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// We can simply step past them on our way.
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addl $8, %esp
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// The last five stack slots hold return address
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// And everything needed to change privilege
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// Into the Guest privilege level of 1,
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// And the stack where the Guest had last left it.
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// Interrupts are turned back on: we are Guest.
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iret
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// There are two paths where we switch to the Host
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// So we put the routine in a macro.
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// We are on our way home, back to the Host
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// Interrupted out of the Guest, we come here.
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#define SWITCH_TO_HOST \
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/* Save guest state */ \
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/* We save the Guest state: all registers first \
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* Laid out just as "struct lguest_regs" defines */ \
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pushl %es; \
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pushl %ds; \
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pushl %fs; \
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pushl %edx; \
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pushl %ecx; \
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pushl %ebx; \
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/* Load lguest ds segment for convenience. */ \
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/* Our stack and our code are using segments \
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* Set in the TSS and IDT \
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* Yet if we were to touch data we'd use \
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* Whatever data segment the Guest had. \
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* Load the lguest ds segment for now. */ \
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movl $(LGUEST_DS), %eax; \
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movl %eax, %ds; \
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/* Figure out where we are, based on stack (at top of regs). */ \
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/* So where are we? Which CPU, which struct? \
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* The stack is our clue: our TSS sets \
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* It at the end of "struct lguest_pages" \
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* And we then pushed and pushed and pushed Guest regs: \
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* Now stack points atop the "struct lguest_regs". \
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* Subtract that offset, and we find our struct. */ \
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movl %esp, %eax; \
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subl $LGUEST_PAGES_regs, %eax; \
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/* Put trap number in %ebx before we switch cr3 and lose it. */ \
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/* Save our trap number: the switch will obscure it \
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* (The Guest regs are not mapped here in the Host) \
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* %ebx holds it safe for deliver_to_host */ \
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movl LGUEST_PAGES_regs_trapnum(%eax), %ebx; \
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/* Switch to host page tables (host GDT, IDT and stack are in host \
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mem, so need this first) */ \
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/* The Host GDT, IDT and stack! \
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* All these lie safely hidden from the Guest: \
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* We must return to the Host page tables \
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* (Hence that was saved in struct lguest_pages) */ \
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movl LGUEST_PAGES_host_cr3(%eax), %edx; \
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movl %edx, %cr3; \
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/* Set guest's TSS to available (clear byte 5 bit 2). */ \
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/* As before, when we looked back at the Host \
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* As we left and marked TSS unused \
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* So must we now for the Guest left behind. */ \
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andb $0xFD, (LGUEST_PAGES_guest_gdt+GDT_ENTRY_TSS*8+5)(%eax); \
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/* Switch to host's GDT & IDT. */ \
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/* Switch to Host's GDT, IDT. */ \
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lgdt LGUEST_PAGES_host_gdt_desc(%eax); \
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lidt LGUEST_PAGES_host_idt_desc(%eax); \
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/* Switch to host's stack. */ \
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/* Restore the Host's stack where it's saved regs lie */ \
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movl LGUEST_PAGES_host_sp(%eax), %esp; \
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/* Switch to host's TSS */ \
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/* Last the TSS: our Host is complete */ \
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movl $(GDT_ENTRY_TSS*8), %edx; \
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ltr %dx; \
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/* Restore now the regs saved right at the first. */ \
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popl %ebp; \
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popl %fs; \
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popl %gs; \
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popl %ds; \
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popl %es
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/* Return to run_guest_once. */
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// Here's where we come when the Guest has just trapped:
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// (Which trap we'll see has been pushed on the stack).
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// We need only switch back, and the Host will decode
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// Why we came home, and what needs to be done.
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return_to_host:
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SWITCH_TO_HOST
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iret
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// An interrupt, with some cause external
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// Has ajerked us rudely from the Guest's code
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// Again we must return home to the Host
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deliver_to_host:
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SWITCH_TO_HOST
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/* Decode IDT and jump to hosts' irq handler. When that does iret, it
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* will return to run_guest_once. This is a feature. */
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// But now we must go home via that place
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// Where that interrupt was supposed to go
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// Had we not been ensconced, running the Guest.
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// Here we see the cleverness of our stack:
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// The Host stack is formed like an interrupt
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// With EIP, CS and EFLAGS layered.
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// Interrupt handlers end with "iret"
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// And that will take us home at long long last.
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// But first we must find the handler to call!
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// The IDT descriptor for the Host
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// Has two bytes for size, and four for address:
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// %edx will hold it for us for now.
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movl (LGUEST_PAGES_host_idt_desc+2)(%eax), %edx
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// We now know the table address we need,
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// And saved the trap's number inside %ebx.
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// Yet the pointer to the handler is smeared
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// Across the bits of the table entry.
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// What oracle can tell us how to extract
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// From such a convoluted encoding?
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// I consulted gcc, and it gave
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// These instructions, which I gladly credit:
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leal (%edx,%ebx,8), %eax
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movzwl (%eax),%edx
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movl 4(%eax), %eax
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xorw %ax, %ax
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orl %eax, %edx
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// Now the address of the handler's in %edx
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// We call it now: its "iret" takes us home.
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jmp *%edx
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/* Real hardware interrupts are delivered straight to the host. Others
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cause us to return to run_guest_once so it can decide what to do. Note
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that some of these are overridden by the guest to deliver directly, and
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never enter here (see load_guest_idt_entry). */
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// Every interrupt can come to us here
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// But we must truly tell each apart.
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// They number two hundred and fifty six
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// And each must land in a different spot,
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// Push its number on stack, and join the stream.
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// And worse, a mere six of the traps stand apart
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// And push on their stack an addition:
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// An error number, thirty two bits long
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// So we punish the other two fifty
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// And make them push a zero so they match.
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// Yet two fifty six entries is long
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// And all will look most the same as the last
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// So we create a macro which can make
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// As many entries as we need to fill.
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// Note the change to .data then .text:
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// We plant the address of each entry
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// Into a (data) table for the Host
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// To know where each Guest interrupt should go.
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.macro IRQ_STUB N TARGET
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.data; .long 1f; .text; 1:
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/* Make an error number for most traps, which don't have one. */
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// Trap eight, ten through fourteen and seventeen
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// Supply an error number. Else zero.
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.if (\N <> 8) && (\N < 10 || \N > 14) && (\N <> 17)
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pushl $0
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.endif
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ALIGN
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.endm
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// This macro creates numerous entries
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// Using GAS macros which out-power C's.
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.macro IRQ_STUBS FIRST LAST TARGET
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irq=\FIRST
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.rept \LAST-\FIRST+1
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.endr
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.endm
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/* We intercept every interrupt, because we may need to switch back to
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* host. Unfortunately we can't tell them apart except by entry
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* point, so we need 256 entry points.
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*/
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// Here's the marker for our pointer table
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// Laid in the data section just before
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// Each macro places the address of code
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// Forming an array: each one points to text
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// Which handles interrupt in its turn.
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.data
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.global default_idt_entries
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default_idt_entries:
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.text
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IRQ_STUBS 0 1 return_to_host /* First two traps */
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IRQ_STUB 2 handle_nmi /* NMI */
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IRQ_STUBS 3 31 return_to_host /* Rest of traps */
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IRQ_STUBS 32 127 deliver_to_host /* Real interrupts */
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IRQ_STUB 128 return_to_host /* System call (overridden) */
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IRQ_STUBS 129 255 deliver_to_host /* Other real interrupts */
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// The first two traps go straight back to the Host
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IRQ_STUBS 0 1 return_to_host
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// We'll say nothing, yet, about NMI
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IRQ_STUB 2 handle_nmi
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// Other traps also return to the Host
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IRQ_STUBS 3 31 return_to_host
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// All interrupts go via their handlers
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IRQ_STUBS 32 127 deliver_to_host
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// 'Cept system calls coming from userspace
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// Are to go to the Guest, never the Host.
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IRQ_STUB 128 return_to_host
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IRQ_STUBS 129 255 deliver_to_host
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/* We ignore NMI and return. */
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// The NMI, what a fabulous beast
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// Which swoops in and stops us no matter that
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// We're suspended between heaven and hell,
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// (Or more likely between the Host and Guest)
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// When in it comes! We are dazed and confused
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// So we do the simplest thing which one can.
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// Though we've pushed the trap number and zero
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// We discard them, return, and hope we live.
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handle_nmi:
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addl $8, %esp
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iret
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// We are done; all that's left is Mastery
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// And "make Mastery" is a journey long
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// Designed to make your fingers itch to code.
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// Here ends the text, the file and poem.
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ENTRY(end_switcher_text)
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