In u-boot, kernel_entry points to which function?

This is the function from u-boot:

static void boot_jump_linux(bootm_headers_t *images, int flag)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
void (*kernel_entry)(void *fdt_addr);
int fake = (flag & BOOTM_STATE_OS_FAKE_GO);

kernel_entry = (void (*)(void *fdt_addr))images->ep;

debug("## Transferring control to Linux (at address %lx)...\n",
(ulong) kernel_entry);
bootstage_mark(BOOTSTAGE_ID_RUN_OS);

announce_and_cleanup(fake);

if (!fake)
kernel_entry(images->ft_addr);
#else
unsigned long machid = gd->bd->bi_arch_number;
char *s;
void (*kernel_entry)(int zero, int arch, uint params);
unsigned long r2;
int fake = (flag & BOOTM_STATE_OS_FAKE_GO);

kernel_entry = (void (*)(int, int, uint))images->ep;

s = getenv("machid");
if (s) {
strict_strtoul(s, 16, &machid);
printf("Using machid 0x%lx from environment\n", machid);
}

debug("## Transferring control to Linux (at address %08lx)" \
"...\n", (ulong) kernel_entry);
bootstage_mark(BOOTSTAGE_ID_RUN_OS);
announce_and_cleanup(fake);

if (IMAGE_ENABLE_OF_LIBFDT && images->ft_len)
r2 = (unsigned long)images->ft_addr;
else
r2 = gd->bd->bi_boot_params;

if (!fake)
kernel_entry(0, machid, r2);
#endif
}

I understood from the related question: Trying to understand the usage of function pointer that kernel_entryis a pointer to a function. Can someone help me understand where that function is defined? I don't even know the name of this function so I failed to grepit.

NOTE: The entire u-boot source code is here.

Indeed kernel_entry is a function pointer. It is initialized from the ep field of the piece of data passed in called images, of type bootm_header_t. The definition of that struct is in include/image.h. This is the definition of a bootable image header, ie the header of a kernel image which contain the basic info to boot that image from the boot loader. Obviously, to start it, you need a program entry point, similarly to the main function in regular C programs.

In that structure, the entry point is simply defined as a memory address (unsigned long), which the code you listed cast into that function pointer.

That structure as been obtained from loading the first blocks of the image file on disk, whose location is known already by the boot loader.

Hence the actual code pointed by that function pointer belongs to a different binary, and the definition of the function must be located in a different source code. For a linux kernel, this entry point is an assembly hand coded function, whose source is in head.S. This function being highly arch dependent, you will find many files of that name implementing it accross the kernel tree.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24423960/in-u-boot-kernel-entry-points-to-which-function

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