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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 08/23] x86/xen_hello_world.xsplice: Test payload for patching 'xen_extra_version'. (v2)



On 02/12/2016 06:05 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
This change demonstrates how to generate an xSplice ELF payload.

The idea here is that we want to patch in the hypervisor
the 'xen_version_extra' function with an function that will
return 'Hello World'. The 'xl info | grep extraversion'
will reflect the new value after the patching.

To generate this ELF payload file we need:
  - C code of the new code (xen_hello_world_func.c).
  - C code generating the .xsplice.funcs structure
    (xen_hello_world.c)
  - The address of the old code (xen_extra_version). We
    retrieve it by  using 'nm --defined' on xen-syms.
  - The size of the new and old code for which we use
    nm --defined -S on our code and xen-syms respectively.

snip
diff --git a/tools/misc/xsplice.lds b/tools/misc/xsplice.lds
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f52eb8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/misc/xsplice.lds
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf64-x86-64", "elf64-x86-64", "elf64-x86-64")
+OUTPUT_ARCH(i386:x86-64)
+ENTRY(xsplice_hello_world)
+SECTIONS
+{
+    /* The hypervisor expects ".xsplice.func", so change
+     * the ".data.xsplice_hello_world" to it. */
+
+    .xsplice.funcs : { *(*.xsplice_hello_world) }
+
+}
I think this file can be dropped now, nothing uses it as far as I can see.

--
Ross Lagerwall

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