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-rw-r--r--Documentation/lguest/lguest.c60
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 54 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
index aa2574ca94c..f2dbbf3bdea 100644
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
@@ -481,51 +481,6 @@ static unsigned long load_initrd(const char *name, unsigned long mem)
/* We return the initrd size. */
return len;
}
-
-/* Once we know how much memory we have we can construct simple linear page
- * tables which set virtual == physical which will get the Guest far enough
- * into the boot to create its own.
- *
- * We lay them out of the way, just below the initrd (which is why we need to
- * know its size here). */
-static unsigned long setup_pagetables(unsigned long mem,
- unsigned long initrd_size)
-{
- unsigned long *pgdir, *linear;
- unsigned int mapped_pages, i, linear_pages;
- unsigned int ptes_per_page = getpagesize()/sizeof(void *);
-
- mapped_pages = mem/getpagesize();
-
- /* Each PTE page can map ptes_per_page pages: how many do we need? */
- linear_pages = (mapped_pages + ptes_per_page-1)/ptes_per_page;
-
- /* We put the toplevel page directory page at the top of memory. */
- pgdir = from_guest_phys(mem) - initrd_size - getpagesize();
-
- /* Now we use the next linear_pages pages as pte pages */
- linear = (void *)pgdir - linear_pages*getpagesize();
-
- /* Linear mapping is easy: put every page's address into the mapping in
- * order. PAGE_PRESENT contains the flags Present, Writable and
- * Executable. */
- for (i = 0; i < mapped_pages; i++)
- linear[i] = ((i * getpagesize()) | PAGE_PRESENT);
-
- /* The top level points to the linear page table pages above. */
- for (i = 0; i < mapped_pages; i += ptes_per_page) {
- pgdir[i/ptes_per_page]
- = ((to_guest_phys(linear) + i*sizeof(void *))
- | PAGE_PRESENT);
- }
-
- verbose("Linear mapping of %u pages in %u pte pages at %#lx\n",
- mapped_pages, linear_pages, to_guest_phys(linear));
-
- /* We return the top level (guest-physical) address: the kernel needs
- * to know where it is. */
- return to_guest_phys(pgdir);
-}
/*:*/
/* Simple routine to roll all the commandline arguments together with spaces
@@ -548,13 +503,13 @@ static void concat(char *dst, char *args[])
/*L:185 This is where we actually tell the kernel to initialize the Guest. We
* saw the arguments it expects when we looked at initialize() in lguest_user.c:
- * the base of Guest "physical" memory, the top physical page to allow, the
- * top level pagetable and the entry point for the Guest. */
-static int tell_kernel(unsigned long pgdir, unsigned long start)
+ * the base of Guest "physical" memory, the top physical page to allow and the
+ * entry point for the Guest. */
+static int tell_kernel(unsigned long start)
{
unsigned long args[] = { LHREQ_INITIALIZE,
(unsigned long)guest_base,
- guest_limit / getpagesize(), pgdir, start };
+ guest_limit / getpagesize(), start };
int fd;
verbose("Guest: %p - %p (%#lx)\n",
@@ -1941,7 +1896,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
/* Memory, top-level pagetable, code startpoint and size of the
* (optional) initrd. */
- unsigned long mem = 0, pgdir, start, initrd_size = 0;
+ unsigned long mem = 0, start, initrd_size = 0;
/* Two temporaries and the /dev/lguest file descriptor. */
int i, c, lguest_fd;
/* The boot information for the Guest. */
@@ -2040,9 +1995,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
boot->hdr.type_of_loader = 0xFF;
}
- /* Set up the initial linear pagetables, starting below the initrd. */
- pgdir = setup_pagetables(mem, initrd_size);
-
/* The Linux boot header contains an "E820" memory map: ours is a
* simple, single region. */
boot->e820_entries = 1;
@@ -2064,7 +2016,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
/* We tell the kernel to initialize the Guest: this returns the open
* /dev/lguest file descriptor. */
- lguest_fd = tell_kernel(pgdir, start);
+ lguest_fd = tell_kernel(start);
/* We clone off a thread, which wakes the Launcher whenever one of the
* input file descriptors needs attention. We call this the Waker, and