include/xen/interface/elfnote.h

Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/include/xen/interface/elfnote.h

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System
Linux kernel
Corpus path
include/xen/interface/elfnote.h
Extension
.h
Size
8405 bytes
Lines
277
Domain
Repository Root And Misc
Bucket
include
Inferred role
Repository Root And Misc: implementation source
Status
source implementation candidate

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#ifndef __XEN_PUBLIC_ELFNOTE_H__
#define __XEN_PUBLIC_ELFNOTE_H__

/*
 * `incontents 200 elfnotes ELF notes
 *
 * The notes should live in a PT_NOTE segment and have "Xen" in the
 * name field.
 *
 * Numeric types are either 4 or 8 bytes depending on the content of
 * the desc field.
 *
 * LEGACY indicated the fields in the legacy __xen_guest string which
 * this a note type replaces.
 *
 * String values (for non-legacy) are NULL terminated ASCII, also known
 * as ASCIZ type.
 *
 * Xen only uses ELF Notes contained in x86 binaries.
 */

/*
 * NAME=VALUE pair (string).
 */
#define XEN_ELFNOTE_INFO           0

/*
 * The virtual address of the entry point (numeric).
 *
 * LEGACY: VIRT_ENTRY
 */
#define XEN_ELFNOTE_ENTRY          1

/* The virtual address of the hypercall transfer page (numeric).
 *
 * LEGACY: HYPERCALL_PAGE. (n.b. legacy value is a physical page
 * number not a virtual address)
 */
#define XEN_ELFNOTE_HYPERCALL_PAGE 2

/* The virtual address where the kernel image should be mapped (numeric).
 *
 * Defaults to 0.
 *
 * LEGACY: VIRT_BASE
 */
#define XEN_ELFNOTE_VIRT_BASE      3

/*
 * The offset of the ELF paddr field from the actual required
 * pseudo-physical address (numeric).
 *
 * This is used to maintain backwards compatibility with older kernels
 * which wrote __PAGE_OFFSET into that field. This field defaults to 0
 * if not present.
 *
 * LEGACY: ELF_PADDR_OFFSET. (n.b. legacy default is VIRT_BASE)
 */
#define XEN_ELFNOTE_PADDR_OFFSET   4

/*
 * The version of Xen that we work with (string).
 *
 * LEGACY: XEN_VER
 */
#define XEN_ELFNOTE_XEN_VERSION    5

/*
 * The name of the guest operating system (string).
 *
 * LEGACY: GUEST_OS
 */
#define XEN_ELFNOTE_GUEST_OS       6

/*
 * The version of the guest operating system (string).
 *
 * LEGACY: GUEST_VER
 */
#define XEN_ELFNOTE_GUEST_VERSION  7

/*
 * The loader type (string).
 *
 * LEGACY: LOADER
 */
#define XEN_ELFNOTE_LOADER         8

/*
 * The kernel supports PAE (x86/32 only, string = "yes", "no" or

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