- There is are two pages above us for this CPU (struct lguest_pages).
- The second page (struct lguest_ro_state) becomes read-only after the
- context switch. The first page (the stack for traps) remains writable,
- but while we're in here, the guest cannot be running.
-*/
+/*S:100
+ * Welcome to the Switcher itself!
+ *
+ * This file contains the low-level code which changes the CPU to run the Guest
+ * code, and returns to the Host when something happens. Understand this, and
+ * you understand the heart of our journey.
+ *
+ * Because this is in assembler rather than C, our tale switches from prose to
+ * verse. First I tried limericks:
+ *
+ * There once was an eax reg,
+ * To which our pointer was fed,
+ * It needed an add,
+ * Which asm-offsets.h had
+ * But this limerick is hurting my head.
+ *
+ * Next I tried haikus, but fitting the required reference to the seasons in
+ * every stanza was quickly becoming tiresome:
+ *
+ * The %eax reg
+ * Holds "struct lguest_pages" now:
+ * Cherry blossoms fall.
+ *
+ * Then I started with Heroic Verse, but the rhyming requirement leeched away
+ * the content density and led to some uniquely awful oblique rhymes:
+ *
+ * These constants are coming from struct offsets
+ * For use within the asm switcher text.
+ *
+ * Finally, I settled for something between heroic hexameter, and normal prose
+ * with inappropriate linebreaks. Anyway, it aint no Shakespeare.
+ */
+
+// Not all kernel headers work from assembler
+// But these ones are needed: the ENTRY() define
+// And constants extracted from struct offsets
+// To avoid magic numbers and breakage:
+// Should they change the compiler can't save us
+// Down here in the depths of assembler code.