grub/grub-core
Daniel Kiper a620876e3b multiboot2: Add support for relocatable images
Currently multiboot2 protocol loads image exactly at address specified in
ELF or multiboot2 header. This solution works quite well on legacy BIOS
platforms. It is possible because memory regions are placed at predictable
addresses (though I was not able to find any spec which says that it is
strong requirement, so, it looks that it is just a goodwill of hardware
designers). However, EFI platforms are more volatile. Even if required
memory regions live at specific addresses then they are sometimes simply
not free (e.g. used by boot/runtime services on Dell PowerEdge R820 and
OVMF). This means that you are not able to just set up final image
destination on build time. You have to provide method to relocate image
contents to real load address which is usually different than load address
specified in ELF and multiboot2 headers.

This patch provides all needed machinery to do self relocation in image code.
First of all GRUB2 reads min_addr (min. load addr), max_addr (max. load addr),
align (required image alignment), preference (it says which memory regions are
preferred by image, e.g. none, low, high) from multiboot_header_tag_relocatable
header tag contained in binary (at this stage load addresses from multiboot2
and/or ELF headers are ignored). Later loader tries to fulfill request (not only
that one) and if it succeeds then it informs image about real load address via
multiboot_tag_load_base_addr tag. At this stage GRUB2 role is finished. Starting
from now executable must cope with relocations itself using whole static and
dynamic knowledge provided by boot loader.

This patch does not provide functionality which could do relocations using
ELF relocation data. However, I was asked by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk and Vladimir
'phcoder' Serbinenko to investigate that thing. It looks that relevant machinery
could be added to existing code (including this patch) without huge effort.
Additionally, ELF relocation could live in parallel with self relocation provided
by this patch. However, during research I realized that first of all we should
establish the details how ELF relocatable image should look like and how it should
be build. At least to build proper test/example files.

So, this patch just provides support for self relocatable images. If ELF file
with relocs is loaded then GRUB2 complains loudly and ignores it. Support for
such files will be added later.

This patch was tested with Xen image which uses that functionality. However, this Xen
feature is still under development and new patchset will be released in about 2-3 weeks.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
2016-10-27 15:55:16 +02:00
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boot mips: Make the assembly-code N32-compatible. 2015-10-11 13:20:26 +02:00
bus usbtrans: Fix memory coherence and use-after-free. 2016-02-27 13:40:52 +01:00
commands cat: Don't switch terminal mode when there is nothing to highlight. 2016-02-27 13:35:36 +01:00
disk efidisk: Respect block_io_protocol buffer alignment 2016-02-27 13:44:59 +01:00
efiemu efiemu: Fix compilation failure 2016-01-22 14:10:30 +01:00
font Document intentional fallthroughs. 2015-01-27 17:17:58 +01:00
fs xfs: accept filesystem with meta_uuid 2016-07-26 20:29:26 +03:00
gdb With Apple assembly in .macro environvemnt you have to use $$ instead 2013-11-24 07:08:18 +01:00
gettext * grub-core/gettext/gettext.c (main_context), (secondary_context): 2013-11-07 01:01:47 +01:00
gfxmenu gfxmenu: fix memory leak 2016-01-12 21:52:50 +03:00
gnulib update gnulib/argp-help.c to fix garbage in grub-mknetdir --help output 2015-03-05 20:19:47 +03:00
hello * grub-core/commands/gptsync.c: Fix typographic quoting. 2012-03-03 13:05:08 +01:00
hook * grub-core/hook/datehook.c (grub_read_hook_datetime): Small stylistic 2011-11-11 21:03:49 +01:00
io gzio: Optimize by removing division. 2015-02-26 22:10:09 +01:00
kern Add missing va_end() to xasprintf() in grub-emu. 2016-08-13 16:36:01 +03:00
lib i386/relocator: Add grub_relocator64_efi relocator 2016-10-27 15:53:43 +02:00
loader multiboot2: Add support for relocatable images 2016-10-27 15:55:16 +02:00
mmap Translate UEFI persistent memory type 2015-12-15 10:25:34 +03:00
net net/ip: Fix limit_time calculation in freeing old fragments 2016-10-18 20:26:42 +03:00
normal menu_entry: Disable cursor during update_screen() 2016-02-22 09:59:27 +03:00
osdep build: Use AC_HEADER_MAJOR to find device macros 2016-04-24 08:12:42 +03:00
partmap disk/ldm, partmap/msdos.c: fix spelling error 2015-08-22 21:22:41 +02:00
parttool * grub-core/net/http.c: Add TRANSLATORS comments. 2012-03-05 16:42:26 +01:00
script yylex: use grub_fatal for exit. 2016-02-12 12:34:54 +01:00
term at_keyboard: fix numpad "0" and "." mapping 2016-07-27 08:33:12 +03:00
tests Regenerate checksums 2016-02-26 11:37:47 +01:00
video jpeg: Optimise by replacing division with shifts. 2015-02-26 21:27:32 +01:00
gdb_grub.in * grub-core/gdb_grub.in: Fix overflow and wrong field. 2013-10-14 03:40:20 +02:00
genemuinit.sh use MODULE_FILES for genemuinit* instead of MOD_FILES 2014-01-18 23:15:40 +04:00
genemuinitheader.sh use MODULE_FILES for genemuinit* instead of MOD_FILES 2014-01-18 23:15:40 +04:00
genmod.sh.in Add missing BUILD_EXEEXT 2016-01-01 12:06:40 +03:00
genmoddep.awk genmoddep.awk: Add a test that we have no circular dependencies 2015-11-08 20:00:27 +01:00
gensyminfo.sh.in * grub-core/gensyminfo.sh.in: Handle the case of portable output 2013-11-11 23:05:53 +01:00
gensymlist.sh Make 'make check' work on emu. 2013-04-27 02:00:16 +02:00
gentrigtables.c * grub-core/gentrigtables.c: Make tables const. 2013-03-01 11:15:09 +01:00
gmodule.pl.in * grub-core/gmodule.pl.in: Accept newer binutils which output 2014-09-21 18:23:23 +02:00
gnulib-fix-null-deref.diff Import new gnulib. 2013-04-11 21:12:46 +02:00
gnulib-fix-width.diff Import new gnulib. 2013-04-11 21:12:46 +02:00
gnulib-no-abort.diff Import new gnulib. 2013-04-11 21:12:46 +02:00
gnulib-no-gets.diff Import new gnulib. 2013-04-11 21:12:46 +02:00
Makefile.am Split pmtimer wait and tsc measurement from pmtimer tsc calibration. 2016-02-12 11:40:51 +01:00
Makefile.core.def i386/relocator: Add grub_relocator64_efi relocator 2016-10-27 15:53:43 +02:00
modinfo.sh.in modinfo.sh.in: Add missing config variables. 2015-03-27 12:18:25 +01:00