[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [Xen-devel] question about xen virtual base address
I don't understand how are GDT table entries for Xen created? Init. Code subtracts 14 pages from gdt_table address for GDT table address. Who populates entries at that address? -----Original Message----- From: Keir Fraser [mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:31 AM To: Agarwal, Lomesh; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] question about xen virtual base address Answer to both questions is that we want to keep out of the way of paravirtual guest OS addressing. Guests want to use virtual addresses from 0x0, so Xen has to be raised up out of the way. Similarly, guests may expect to use GDT entries starting from entry 0 upwards, and hence Xen gets pushed up to the last two pages of a full-size GDT. Both of these shifts are required because Xen shares its own virtual-memory structures (GDT, page tables) with the guest, for efficient switching between guest context and hypervisor context. -- Keir On 8/3/08 23:07, "Agarwal, Lomesh" <lomesh.agarwal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have two questions regarding x86_64 xen boot code - > 1. It looks like Xen base virtual address is 0xFFFF830000000000. That's > why Page table needs to have mirror mapping for lower and higher virtual > address. If the base virtual address would have been 0 (__PAGE_OFFSET), > code in file x86_64.S would have been much easy to understand and > maintain. So, is there a specific reason to choose this high virtual > address? > 2. Why do we need to subtract FIRST_RESERVED_GDT_BYTE (14 pages) from > address of gdt_table when calculating the base address for GDT table? > How does this subtraction give the right address for GDT table? > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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