At the moment, FirmwarePerformanceTableDataDxe or DxeCorePerformanceLib
are unusable on systems such as AMD Seattle, because they unconditionally
attempt to allocate memory below 4 GB, and ASSERT() if this fails. On AMD
Seattle, no 32-bit addressable DRAM exists, and so the driver will always
assert, and crash a running DEBUG build.
The reason for this is that some platforms (i.e., X64 builds consisting of
a 32-bit PEI stage and 64-bit remaining stages) require these allocations
to be below 4 GB, and for some reason, open coding this practice throughout
the code without regard for other architectures has been regarded as an
acceptable approach.
Instead, I would like to propose the approach implemented in this series:
- create an abstracted EfiAllocatePeiAccessiblePages() routine in UefiLib
that simply allocates pages from any region on all architectures except
X64, and allocate below 4 GB for X64
- update the various call sites with calls to this new function.
The above is implemented in patches #3 - #6. Patches #1 and #2 are fixes
for issues that I observed in ArmVirtPkg and OvmfPkg while working on
these patches.
Code can be found here:
https://github.com/ardbiesheuvel/edk2/tree/allocate-pei
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
Cc: Dandan Bi <dandan.bi@intel.com>
Ard Biesheuvel (6):
OvmfPkg/PlatformBootManagerLib: add missing report status code call
ArmVirtPkg/PlatformBootManagerLib: add missing report status code call
MdePkg/UefiLib: introduce EfiAllocatePeiAccessiblePages routine
IntelFrameworkPkg/FrameworkUefiLib: add EfiAllocatePeiAccessiblePages
routine
MdeModulePkg/DxeCorePerformanceLib: use EfiAllocatePeiAccessiblePages
MdeModulePkg/FirmwarePerformanceDataTableDxe: use
EfiAllocatePeiAccessiblePages
.../PlatformBootManagerLib.inf | 1 +
.../PlatformBootManagerLib/QemuKernel.c | 4 ++
.../Library/FrameworkUefiLib/UefiLib.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++
.../DxeCorePerformanceLib.c | 45 ++---------------
.../FirmwarePerformanceDxe.c | 50 +++----------------
MdePkg/Include/Library/UefiLib.h | 23 +++++++++
MdePkg/Library/UefiLib/UefiLib.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++
.../PlatformBootManagerLib.inf | 1 +
.../PlatformBootManagerLib/QemuKernel.c | 4 ++
9 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
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2.17.0
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