Hi,
the new PRE_INIT feature of kvmtool tries to get rid of the static
linking requirement (for ARM, at least) kvmtool currently comes with:
To be able to use the sandbox feature, kvmtool comes with an init
replacement, which is a statically linked binary injected into the
guest. It initializes the Linux environment and launches the command
provided on the kvmtool command line.
Now this results in a rather big binary blob (around 750K) sitting
in the kvmtool binary.
A recent commit provides another implementation for x86-64:
A tiny assembly stub mounts the host filesystem via 9pfs and calls
the now dynamically linked init binary. This removes the need for
statically linking the guest_init binary and is also much smaller
(find the numbers in patch 4/4).
This series provides implementations for ARM and ARM64. Since I needed
to wrap my mind around the original x86_64 asm code anyway, I also
added an i386 implementation.
Cheers,
Andre.
Andre Przywara (4):
pre_init: rename x86/init.S to x86/init64.S
pre_init: x86/init64.S: use defines for syscall numbers
pre_init: add support for i386 also
pre_init: add ARM implementations
Makefile | 5 ++++-
arm/aarch32/init.S | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arm/aarch64/init.S | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
x86/init32.S | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
x86/{init.S => init64.S} | 14 +++++++++++---
5 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arm/aarch32/init.S
create mode 100644 arm/aarch64/init.S
create mode 100644 x86/init32.S
rename x86/{init.S => init64.S} (71%)
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