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# HG changeset patch
# User kfraser@localhost.localdomain
# Date 1180967531 -3600
# Node ID 5710c94e65394daadafd7a6780450e01a26bf32d
# Parent d0dc12484bf2e1a7397e6ea4bcfeb6ef118494ac
Fix boot loader hangs with syslinux's 32-bit vesamenu module.

Syslinux can load 32-bit UI code for menu handling. But the core of
syslinux is still 16-bit. When it jumps to this 32-bit code, it
installs a set of 32-bit interrupt trap handlers which just bounce the
interrupts back to 16-bit mode.

But this plays badly with vmxassist. When running 16-bit boot loader
code, vmxassist installs its own trap handlers which bounce vPIC
interrupts back down to 16-bit mode. The trap handlers live at
int 0x20 to 0x2f, so when the 16-bit code tries to reprogram the vPIC,
vm86 rewrites the outb()s on the fly to set the irq_base vectors
accordingly.

So when syslinux enters 32-bit mode, the vPIC has still been
programmed to point to vmxassist's bounce traps, even though vmxassist
is no longer active once the guest is running 32-bit code. So the
wrong interrupts get delivered to the guest.

Fix this by restoring the rombios vPIC irq_base vectors when we leave
vmxassist mode, and returning the vmxassist traps when we reenter it.
These irq base values are hard-coded in this patch, but they are
already hard-coded in vmxassist so any boot code that relies on
changing them will already fail.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
---
xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff -r d0dc12484bf2 -r 5710c94e6539 xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c Mon Jun 04 15:21:12 2007 +0100
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c Mon Jun 04 15:32:11 2007 +0100
@@ -2002,6 +2002,19 @@ static int vmx_assist(struct vcpu *v, in
if ( vmx_world_restore(v, &c) != 0 )
goto error;
v->arch.hvm_vmx.vmxassist_enabled = 1;
+ /*
+ * The 32-bit vmxassist vm86.c support code is hard-coded to
+ * expect vPIC interrupts to arrive at interrupt traps 0x20-0x27
+ * and 0x28-0x2f. It bounces these to 16-bit boot code traps
+ * 0x08-0x0f and 0x70-0x77. But when the guest transitions
+ * to true native 32-bit mode, vmxassist steps out of the
+ * way and no such bouncing occurs; so we need to rewrite
+ * the vPIC irq base to point directly to 0x08/0x70 (see
+ * code just below). So on re-entering 16-bit mode, we need
+ * to reset the vPICs to go back to the 0x20/0x28 bounce traps.
+ */
+ v->domain->arch.hvm_domain.vpic[0].irq_base = 0x20;
+ v->domain->arch.hvm_domain.vpic[1].irq_base = 0x28;
return 1;
}
break;
@@ -2020,6 +2033,12 @@ static int vmx_assist(struct vcpu *v, in
if ( vmx_world_restore(v, &c) != 0 )
goto error;
v->arch.hvm_vmx.vmxassist_enabled = 0;
+ /*
+ * See comment above about vmxassist 16/32-bit vPIC behaviour.
+ * The irq_base values are hard-coded into vmxassist vm86.c.
+ */
+ v->domain->arch.hvm_domain.vpic[0].irq_base = 0x08;
+ v->domain->arch.hvm_domain.vpic[1].irq_base = 0x70;
return 1;
}
break;

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