Re: [Xen-devel] Bare-metal Xen on ARM boot

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 09:55 +0100, Sander Bogaert wrote:
> > This patch got me further in booting the domain but still got stuck. I
> > was adding extra print's to find out where exactly. Here is the
> > stacktrace ( attached the whole output too) :
> >
> > domainbuilder: detail: xc_dom_build_image: called
> > domainbuilder: detail: xc_dom_alloc_segment:   kernel       :
> > 0x80000000 -> 0x80011000  (pfn 0x80000 + 0x11 pages)
> > domainbuilder: detail: xc_dom_pfn_to_ptr: pfn 80000 out of range
> > (0x80000 > 0x2000)

This could be due to confusion about where the RAM base starts.

On x86 RAM starts at zero and so the domain builder had/has some
assumptions about that in it. So your image appears to be linked at
0x8000000 (a common RAM base on ARM, and the one we currently expose to
guest virtual machines, good) but the domain builder thinks memory is
0x0...0x2000000, bad.

I added rambase_pfn to xc_dom_image to address this.
tools/libxc/xc_dom_armzimageloader.c deals with it but I suspect the ELF
loader doesn't. You could probably hack an assignment in somewhere.

I wonder if RAM base ought to be part of xc_dom_arch and set the default
in xc_dom_image from that?

We should also perhaps consider whether 0x80000000 is the right base to
expose to guests.

> > libxl: error: libxl_dom.c:392:libxl__build_pv: xc_dom_build_image
> > failed: No such file or directory
> > domainbuilder: detail: xc_dom_release: called
> > libxl: error: libxl_create.c:908:domcreate_rebuild_done: cannot
> > (re-)build domain: -3
> > libxl: debug: libxl_event.c:1569:libxl__ao_complete: ao 0x3aa28: complete, 
> > rc=-3
> > libxl: debug: libxl_create.c:1249:do_domain_create: ao 0x3aa28:
> > inprogress: poller=0x34880, flags=ic
> > libxl: debug: libxl_event.c:1541:libxl__ao__destroy: ao 0x3aa28: destroy
> >
> > It ends up in libxl_dom.c:392:libxl__build_pv: xc_dom_build_image
> > failed where there is some x86 specific stuff I think.
> >
> > Thx
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if you had any chance to have a look at this? Would it
> be a big patch to make ELF work? I'm trying to figure it out myself
> but it's not that easy, I'm new to this :-) ( and I had some problems
> compiling the tools again ). Maybe some pointers could help me create
> this patch myself?

I'm afraid this probably isn't going to float to the top of my TODO list
any time soon, sorry.

If it doesn't turn out to be the rambase thing I mention above then it's
worth noting that before we had libxl integration we had a hacky
"xcbuild" binary[0] which at least at one point supported booting from
ELF files. I wouldn't recommend using xcbuild now but it might be useful
to compare the libxc calls it makes with those made by libxl. (Fair
warning: this might be bad advice and lead you down the wrong path,
there are a couple of different ways you can use the libxc domain
builder IIRC).


[0]
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/ianc/xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/arm-xcbuild
> 
> Sander



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