On 06/03/2019 17:51, Alex Bennée wrote:
Hi,
I've been looking at using PVH as an alternative to a long bios boot
sequence to boot some x86_64 test kernels for tests/tcg. I'm finding it
hard to piece together all the bits but I naively thought it would just
be a case of adding a few ELF NOTES to my boot.S with something like:
ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_VIRT_BASE, _ASM_PTR 0x100000)
ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_ENTRY, _ASM_PTR _start)
ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_PHYS32_ENTRY, _ASM_PTR 0) /* entry ==
virtbase */
ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_PADDR_OFFSET, _ASM_PTR 0)
.code64
.section .text
/* Kernel Entry Point */
.global _start
_start:
// Setup stack ASAP
movq $stack_end,%rsp
However I'm running into lots of head scratching as the get_elf_note
code seems to skip over the notes before failing:
./qemu-system-x86_64 -monitor none -display none \
-chardev stdio,id=out -device isa-debugcon,chardev=out \
-device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -kernel ./tests/hello
load_elf64: processing hdr:0 of type 1
load_elf64: processing hdr:1 of type 4
get_elf_note_type64: looking for type 18, first is 3
get_elf_note_type64: 4/20
get_elf_note_type64: offset is 36
get_elf_note_type64: note is 0
get_elf_note_type64: 0/123713
get_elf_note_type64: offset is 123728
load_elf64: processing hdr:2 of type 1685382481
qemu-system-x86_64: Error loading uncompressed kernel without PVH ELF Note
What does 'readelf -Wn ./tests/hello' or 'readelf -p .notes
./tests/hello' show?
So I thought I'd go back to the Linux kernel and see if I could get it
to boot up. So I built an x86_64 kernel with:
CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y
CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM_SMP=y
CONFIG_XEN_PVH=y
CONFIG_PVH=y
And tried to boot that, it certainly gets a lot further but in detecting
the note 18 it's looking for but then doesn't provide any output. So I
started digging around the patches and saw talk of a PVH option ROM
which does all the x86 mode escalation before booting the kernel.
However I was unable to find any documentation about if I should be
adding this manually to my command line or if it is auto-magiced into
place. So I have a number of questions:
* what's the canonical command line for booting a Linux PVHVM kernel?
I had been using '-bios ./qboot.bin' (using
https://github.com/bonzini/qboot/pull/17/files) but Stefano's changes
mean that isn't necessary. Here's a command line I used
sudo $QEMU \
-name testvm01 \
-machine
q35,accel=kvm,kernel_irqchip,nvdimm,nosmm,nosmbus,nosata,nopit \
-cpu host \
-m 1024,maxmem=20G,slots=2 \
-smp 1 \
-no-user-config \
-nodefaults \
-object
memory-backend-file,id=mem0,share,mem-path=$IMAGE,size=235929600 \
-device nvdimm,memdev=mem0,id=nv0 \
-append 'console=ttyS0,115200,8n1 root=/dev/pmem0p1 panic=1 rw
tsc=reliable no_timer_check noreplace-smp init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
rootfstype=ext4 rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 reboot=f' \
-no-reboot \
-serial mon:stdio \
-kernel $KERNEL
* should this work in TCG as well?
* are they any special linker rules required for the Xen.notes?
And finally:
* is this idea of mine a weird abuse of the PVHVM boot protocol or
does it make sense?
Regards,
Liam