Commit Graph

6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Brown
d3db00ecf9 [pcbios] Restrict external memory allocations to the low 4GB
When running the 64-bit BIOS version of iPXE, restrict external memory
allocations to the low 4GB to ensure that allocations (such as for
initrds) fall within our identity-mapped memory region, and will be
accessible to the potentially 32-bit operating system.

Move largest_memblock() back to memtop_umalloc.c, since this change
imposes a restriction that applies only to BIOS builds.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2016-03-08 13:25:09 +00:00
Michael Brown
31b5c2e753 [librm] Provide an abstraction wrapper for prot_call
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2016-02-18 23:23:38 +00:00
Michael Brown
196f0f2551 [librm] Convert prot_call() to a real-mode near call
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2016-02-18 17:12:16 +00:00
Michael Brown
a3b4d6328c [bios] Make uses of REAL_CODE() and PHYS_CODE() 64-bit clean
On a 64-bit CPU, any modification of a register by 32-bit or 16-bit
code will destroy the invisible upper 32 bits of the corresponding
64-bit register.  For example: a 32-bit "pushl %eax" followed by a
"popl %eax" will zero the upper half of %rax.  This differs from the
treatment of upper halves of 32-bit registers by 16-bit code: a
"pushw %ax" followed by a "popw %ax" will leave the upper 16 bits of
%eax unmodified.

Inline assembly generated using REAL_CODE() or PHYS_CODE() will
therefore have to preserve the upper halves of all registers, to avoid
clobbering registers that gcc expects to be preserved.

Output operands from REAL_CODE() and PHYS_CODE() assembly may
therefore contain undefined values in the upper 32 bits.

Fix by using explicit variable widths (e.g. uint32_t) for
non-discarded output operands, to ensure that undefined values in the
upper 32 bits of 64-bit registers are ignored.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2016-02-18 15:12:51 +00:00
Michael Brown
9dc340d735 [librm] Discard argument as part of return from prot_call()
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2016-02-16 23:16:49 +00:00
Michael Brown
f468f12b1e [bios] Add bin-x86_64-pcbios build platform
Move most arch/i386 files to arch/x86, and adjust the contents of the
Makefiles and the include/bits/*.h headers to reflect the new
locations.

This patch makes no substantive code changes, as can be seen using a
rename-aware diff (e.g. "git show -M5").

This patch does not make the pcbios platform functional for x86_64; it
merely allows it to compile without errors.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2016-02-16 19:32:32 +00:00