Allow ourselves to be freed by basemem.c without being damaged.

diff --git a/src/arch/i386/transitions/librm.S b/src/arch/i386/transitions/librm.S
index 5299841c9fee9f6d0cebd2af3b2808c6e0f52487..c915b7ee0b5945cfcfbc3cc8fb86930b88c63726 100644 (file)
--- a/src/arch/i386/transitions/librm.S
+++ b/src/arch/i386/transitions/librm.S
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 /* Drag in local definitions */
 #include "librm.h"
 
+/* Drag in FREE_BASEMEM_HEADER_SIZE */
+#include "basemem.h"
+
 /****************************************************************************
  * This file defines librm: a block of code that is designed to reside
  * permanently in base memory and provide the interface between
@@ -129,6 +132,19 @@ _librm_start:
        .equ _ ## sym, OFFSET(sym) ; \
        sym
 
+/****************************************************************************
+ * Note that the first sizeof(struct free_base_memory_header) bytes of
+ * librm will get vapourised by free_base_memory().  Since we need
+ * librm to continue working even when this happens, we put some
+ * padding here.
+ *
+ * We must also ensure that the total size of librm is <1kB, otherwise
+ * free_base_memory() will stomp somewhere in the middle of us as
+ * well...
+ ****************************************************************************
+ */
+       .fill FREE_BASEMEM_HEADER_SIZE, 1, 0
+       
 /****************************************************************************
  * GDT for initial transition to protected mode
  *