x86/trampoline: Document how the trampoline is laid out

This is, to the best of my knowledge, accurate.  I am providing no comment on
how sane I believe it to be.

At the time of writing, the sizes of the regions are:

          offset  size
  AP:     0x0000  0x00b0
  S3:     0x00b0  0x0229
  Boot:   0x02d9  0x1697
  Heap:   0x1970  0xe690
  Stack:  0xf000  0x1000

and wakeup_stack overlays boot_edd_info.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@cloud.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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* manually as part of placement.
*/
/*
* Layout of the trampoline. Logical areas, in ascending order:
*
* 1) AP boot:
*
* The INIT-SIPI-SIPI entrypoint. This logic is stack-less so the identity
* mapping (which must be executable) can at least be Read Only.
*
* 2) S3 resume:
*
* The S3 wakeup logic may need to interact with the BIOS, so needs a
* stack. The stack pointer is set to trampoline_phys + 4k and clobbers an
* arbitrary part of the the boot trampoline. The stack is only used with
* paging disabled.
*
* 3) Boot trampoline:
*
* The boot trampoline collects data from the BIOS (E820/EDD/EDID/etc), so
* needs a stack. The stack pointer is set to trampoline_phys + 64k, is 4k
* in size, and only used with paging disabled.
*
* 4) Heap space:
*
* The first 1k of heap space is statically allocated scratch space for
* VESA information.
*
* The remainder of the heap is used by reloc(), logic which is otherwise
* outside of the trampoline, to collect the bootloader metadata (cmdline,
* module list, etc). It does so with a bump allocator starting from the
* end of the heap and allocating backwards.
*
* 5) Boot stack:
*
* The boot stack is 4k in size at the end of the trampoline, taking the
* total trampoline size to 64k.
*
* Therefore, when placed, it looks somewhat like this:
*
* +--- trampoline_phys
* v
* |<-------------------------------64K------------------------------->|
* |<-----4K----->| |<---4K--->|
* +-------+------+-+---------------------------------------+----------+
* | AP+S3 | Boot | Heap | Stack |
* +-------+------+-+---------------------------------------+----------+
* ^ ^ <~~^ ^ <~~^ <~~^
* | | | +- trampoline_end[] | |
* | | +--- wakeup_stack reloc() allocator -+ |
* | +---------- trampoline_perm_end Boot Stack ------------+
* +------------------ trampoline_start[]
*
* Note: trampoline_start[] and trampoline_end[] represent the shown
* boundaries, but are addresses as linked into Xen's .init section.
*/
#include <xen/compiler.h>
#include <xen/types.h>
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