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Frediano Ziglio af7423e78d x86/boot: Preserve the value clobbered by the load-base calculation
Right now, Xen clobbers the value at 0xffc when performing it's load-base
calculation.  We've got plenty of free registers at this point, so the value
can be preserved easily.

This fixes a real bug booting under Coreboot+SeaBIOS, where 0xffc happens to
be the cbmem pointer (e.g. Coreboot's dmesg ring, among other things).

However, there's also a better choice of memory location to use than 0xffc, as
all our supported boot protocols have a pointer to an info structure in %ebx.

Update the documentation to match.

Fixes: 1695e53851 ("x86/boot: Fix the boot time relocation calculations")
Fixes: d96bb172e8 ("x86/entry: Early PVH boot code")
Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@cloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: e58a2858d5
master date: 2024-08-27 18:08:19 +0100
2024-11-25 11:57:16 +01:00
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2018-11-14 19:25:11 +00:00
2022-12-12 12:29:09 +01:00

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