[Xen-devel] [PATCH V3] xen/arm: arm64: Update the Image header

[Peng Fan <van.freenix@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to Linux Kernel, Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
"
When image_size is zero, a bootloader should attempt to keep as much
memory as possible free for use by the kernel immediately after the
end of the kernel image. The amount of space required will vary
depending on selected features, and is effectively unbound.
"
This will consumes some memory and time, for example,
When booting xen from U-Boot, U-Boot will use the image size
info. Because this information is lacked in XEN image,U-Boot
assume the image size is 16MB to memmove, which will cost lots
time on simulation platform.

The flags field is also filled with value 0xA,
Bit3(physical placement):   1
Bit2-1(Page size):          1
Bit0(endianness):           0

Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

V3:
 Drop the image.h macros.h from Linux, included in V2.
 Only update image size and flags entry. offset was kept 0 as before.
 Only little endian supported.

V2:
 According to Linux Kernel, a2c1d73b94ed49 "arm64: Update the Image header",
 included unneccessary stuff.

 xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S b/xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S
index 91e2817..2cd3699 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ efi_head:
         add     x13, x18, #0x16
         b       real_start           /* branch to kernel start */
         .quad   0                    /* Image load offset from start of RAM */
-        .quad   0                    /* reserved */
-        .quad   0                    /* reserved */
+       .quad   _end - start         /* Effective size of kernel image, 
little-endian */
+       .quad   0xa                  /* Informative flags(Physical placement 1, 
4KB, LE), little-endian */
         .quad   0                    /* reserved */
         .quad   0                    /* reserved */
         .quad   0                    /* reserved */
-- 
2.6.6


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