UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe: Enable protection for newly added page table
One of the functionalities of CpuDxe is to update memory paging attributes. If page table protection is applied, it must be disabled temporarily before any attributes update and enabled again afterwards. This patch makes use of the same way as DxeIpl to allocate page table memory from reserved memory pool, which helps to reduce potential "split" operation and recursive calling of SetMemorySpaceAttributes(). Laszlo (lersek@redhat.com) did a regression test on QEMU virtual platform with one middle version of this series patch. The details can be found at https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2017-December/018625.html There're a few changes after his work. Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com> Cc: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com> Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com> Cc: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1 Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang <jian.j.wang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
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@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
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BOOLEAN InterruptState = FALSE;
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EFI_HANDLE mCpuHandle = NULL;
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BOOLEAN mIsFlushingGCD;
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BOOLEAN mIsAllocatingPageTable = FALSE;
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UINT64 mValidMtrrAddressMask;
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UINT64 mValidMtrrBitsMask;
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UINT64 mTimerPeriod = 0;
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@@ -407,6 +408,20 @@ CpuSetMemoryAttributes (
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return EFI_SUCCESS;
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}
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//
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// During memory attributes updating, new pages may be allocated to setup
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// smaller granularity of page table. Page allocation action might then cause
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// another calling of CpuSetMemoryAttributes() recursively, due to memory
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// protection policy configured (such as PcdDxeNxMemoryProtectionPolicy).
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// Since this driver will always protect memory used as page table by itself,
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// there's no need to apply protection policy requested from memory service.
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// So it's safe to just return EFI_SUCCESS if this time of calling is caused
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// by page table memory allocation.
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//
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if (mIsAllocatingPageTable) {
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DEBUG((DEBUG_VERBOSE, " Allocating page table memory\n"));
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return EFI_SUCCESS;
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}
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CacheAttributes = Attributes & CACHE_ATTRIBUTE_MASK;
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MemoryAttributes = Attributes & MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_MASK;
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@@ -487,7 +502,7 @@ CpuSetMemoryAttributes (
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//
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// Set memory attribute by page table
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//
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return AssignMemoryPageAttributes (NULL, BaseAddress, Length, MemoryAttributes, AllocatePages);
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return AssignMemoryPageAttributes (NULL, BaseAddress, Length, MemoryAttributes, NULL);
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}
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/**
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