x86/boot: Skip realmode init code when running as Xen PV guest
authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:45:23 +0000 (12:45 +0100)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:05:22 +0000 (12:05 +0100)
commitf1e525009493cbd569e7c8dd7d58157855f8658d
tree03fff613a4aec21d8df989e8ba1a8b7b0826162c
parentcc3fdda2876e58a7e83e558ab51853cf106afb6a
x86/boot: Skip realmode init code when running as Xen PV guest

When running as a Xen PV guest there is no need for setting up the
realmode trampoline, as realmode isn't supported in this environment.

Trying to setup the trampoline has been proven to be problematic in
some cases, especially when trying to debug early boot problems with
Xen requiring to keep the EFI boot-services memory mapped (some
firmware variants seem to claim basically all memory below 1Mb for boot
services).

Introduce new x86_platform_ops operations for that purpose, which can
be set to a NOP by the Xen PV specific kernel boot code.

  [ bp: s/call_init_real_mode/do_init_real_mode/ ]

Fixes: 084ee1c641a0 ("x86, realmode: Relocator for realmode code")
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123114523.3467-1-jgross@suse.com
arch/x86/include/asm/realmode.h
arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c
arch/x86/realmode/init.c
arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c