Apply Clue 2x4 to lguest userland<->kernel handling code and the
lguest launcher. Pointers are not to be passed in u32's!
Basic rule of thumb: Anything passing u32's back and forth should be
passing unsigned longs to be portable to 64 bit archs.
For those who forgotten already, I repeat: NO POINTERS IN u32!
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
In order to avoid problematic special linking of the Launcher, we give
the Host an offset: this means we can use any memory region in the
Launcher as Guest memory rather than insisting on mmap() at 0.
The result is quite pleasing: a number of casts are replaced with
simple additions.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Plan9 kernel binaries don't neatly align their ELF sections to our
page boundaries.
Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
lguest_launcher.h uses "u32" not "__u32", which sets a bad example. Fix that,
and include <linux/types.h>.
This means we need to use -I on the Launcher build line so types.h is found.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
o Describe the new split configurations
o Highlight code documentation in drivers/lguest/README
o Point out necessity of having a getty on /dev/hvc0
o Remove gratuitous "m" in example
o Don't discuss I/O model here, stick to user documentation.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
These two callsites should really be errx instead of err, since there is
no errno associated with them in the moment they are issued.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
To actually write a bootloader (or, say, the lguest launcher)
currently requires duplication of these structures. Making them
includable from userspace is much nicer.
We merge the common userspace-required definitions of e820_32/64.h
into e820.h for export.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Move the headers to include/asm-x86 and fixup the
header install make rules
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The function should also use ftruncate64() rather than ftruncate() to prevent
files over 4GB (not uncommon for a root filesystem) being zeroed.
Signed-off-by: Chris Malley <mail@chrismalley.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some versions of ld.so mmap the shared libraries right in over guest
memory, so compile lguest statically by default.
[ FC7 maps shared libraries very low, where the launcher maps guest's
physical memory. Quick fix is to link Launcher static, real fix is
for 2.6.24. ]
-static is a simple fix. I expect this problem will be more common than we
like, as different distro's make different "improvements" to ld.so
Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation: The FIXMEs
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>
Documentation: The Launcher
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>
The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO.
Noone ever read it.
So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness.
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>
S.Caglar Onur points out that many distributions don't ship a static
zlib. Unfortunately the launcher currently maps virtual device memory
where shared libraries want to go.
The solution is to pre-scan the args to figure out how much memory we
have, then allocate devices above that, rather than down from the top
possible address. This also turns out to be simpler.
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>
A brief document describing how to use lguest. Because lguest doesn't have an
ABI we also include an example launcher in the Documentation directory.
[jmorris@namei.org: Fix up nat example in documentation]
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Matias Zabaljauregui <matias.zabaljauregui@cern.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jes Sorensen