Re: [Xen-devel] start of day mem layout

[Mark Williamson <maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Thanks for the response.
> Just out of curiosity, the mini-os code was targeted at what version
> of XEN ? I would say a very early one right ? perhaps even before XEN
> 1.3 ?

I think it might have been there with the 1.0 release.  It was, I think, 
working around the 1.2 timeframe.  Don't know if it ever got updated during 
the 1.3/2.0 development cycle.

Cheers,
Mark

> Thanks
> Richard
>
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:31:31 -0000, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > > I am working on updating the mini-os to work on XEN 2.0. I am
> > > currently working on the memory management part of mini-os. I am
> > > trying to undestand the start of day memory layout that the guest
> > > domain (mini-os) gets from XEN when it 1st boots up. From what I
> > > undestand, 4 MB of memory are already mapped and virtual memory
> > > from 0xC000_0000 to 0xC040_0000 (4MB) are accessible. XEN already
> > > allocates a pgd and ONE page table for this 4MB vritual memory
> > > mapping.
> >
> > A worthy effort, thanks for doing this.
> >
> > I can't remember this stuff off-hand, but hopefully someone who's done a
> > port recently will speak up.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > > I am booting mini-os with 16 MB of memory and these are the
> > > information I get:
> > >
> > > shared_info                0xc0001000
> > > pfn_to_mfn                 0xc0010000
> > > Page Global Directory      0xc0014000
> > > Page Table                 0xc0015000
> > > start_info                 0xc0016000
> > >
> > > Also, I think my kernel image contains some symbols such as _text,
> > > _etext, _edata, _end.
> > >
> > >  _text                     0xc0000000
> > > _etext                     0xc0007c04
> > > _edata                     0xc000d2c0
> > > _end                       0x819
> > >
> > > I try to draw the virtual mem layout below. Sorry if it does not
> > > appear correctly because of different fonts.
> > >
> > >                _edata             start_info
> > >                c000d2c0             c0016000
> > >   shared_info    |            PGD    |
> > >    c0001000      |         c0014000  |
> > >
> > >   ------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   ------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >   c0000000  |       c0010000    c0015000
> > >   _text     |      pfn_to_mfn      PT
> > >
> > >           _etext
> > >           c0007c04
> > >
> > > I have a few questions. If someone could give some feedback that
> > > would be very appreciated.
> > >
> > > I am not sure if those symbols _text, _etext, _edata and _end are
> > > meaningful or not, but is it correct to have the shared_info in the
> > > middle of my kernel image between _text and _etext ?
> > >
> > > The default control ring between domain0 and a guest OS is found
> > > at shared_info + 2048 offset, is that still valid ?
> > >
> > > Is there anything important after the start_info structure ?
> > > Is address starting at c0016000 + sizeof(start_info) available
> > > to use ?
> > >
> > > Also my _end symbol is found at address 0x819, so I don't quite
> > > udnestand that. Maybe something wrong I am doing in the linking
> > > process of my kernel image.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Richard
> > >
> > >
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