The reason doing this is that we found that calling StartupAllAps() to
flush TLB for all APs in CpuDxe driver after changing page attributes
will spend a lot of time to complete. If there are many page attributes
update requests, the whole system performance will be slowed down
explicitly, including any shell command and UI operation.
The solution is removing the flush operation for AP in CpuDxe driver
and let AP flush TLB after woken up.
Cc: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang <jian.j.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
If features like memory profile, protection and heap guard are enabled,
a lot of more memory page attributes update actions will happen than
usual. An unnecessary sync of CR0.WP setting among APs will then cause
worse performance in memory allocation action. Removing the calling of
SyncMemoryPageAttributesAp() in function DisableReadOnlyPageWriteProtect
and EnableReadOnlyPageWriteProtect can fix this problem. In DEBUG build
case, the boot performance can be boosted from 11 minute to 6 minute.
Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang <jian.j.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
If PcdDxeNxMemoryProtectionPolicy is set to enable protection for memory
of EfiBootServicesCode, EfiConventionalMemory and EfiReservedMemoryType,
the BIOS will hang at a page fault exception randomly.
The root cause is that the memory allocation for driver images (actually
a memory type conversion from free memory, type of EfiConventionalMemory,
to code memory, type of EfiBootServicesCode/EfiRuntimeServicesCode)
will get memory with NX set, because the CpuDxe driver will keep the NX
attribute (with free memory) in page directory during page table splitting
and then override the NX attribute of all its entries.
This patch fixes this issue by not inheriting NX attribute when turning
a page entry into a page directory during page granularity split.
Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Cc: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang <jian.j.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
In 32-bit mode, the BIOS will not create page table for memory beyond
4GB and therefore it cannot handle the attributes change request for
those memory. But current CpuDxe doesn't check this situation and still
try to complete the request, which will cause attributes of incorrect
memory address to be changed due to type cast from 64-bit to 32-bit.
This patch fixes this issue by checking the end address of input
memory block and returning EFI_UNSUPPORTED if it's out of range.
Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.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: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
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>
More than one entry of RT_CODE memory might cause boot problem for some
old OSs. This patch will fix this issue to keep OS compatibility as much
as possible.
More detailed information, please refer to
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753
Laszlo did a thorough test on OVMF emulated platform. The details can be found
at
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753#c10
Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Cc: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang <jian.j.wang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Heap guard feature will frequently update page attributes. The debug message
in CpuDxe driver will slow down the boot performance noticeably. Changing the
debug level to DEBUG_VERBOSE to reduce the message output for normal debug
configuration.
Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Ayellet Wolman <ayellet.wolman@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>
Regression-tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
There're uninitialized variables warning reported by GCC.
This patch will fix it. The original commit is
c1cab54ce5
Cc: Hao Wu <hao.a.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang <jian.j.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hao Wu <hao.a.wu@intel.com>
From CpuDxe driver perspective, it doesn't update GCD memory attributes from
current page table setup during its initialization. So the memory attributes in
GCD might not reflect all memory attributes in real world.
Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Cc: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@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>
The architectural MSR MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE is not supported by AMD processors.
Because reading CPUID.80000001H:EDK[20] is enough to check if XD feature is
supported or not, we just remove checking MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE(0x1A0).
Cc: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Cc: Feng Tian <feng.tian@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Jeff Fan <jeff.fan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Feng Tian <feng.tian@intel.com>
This PCD holds the address mask for page table entries when memory
encryption is enabled on AMD processors supporting the Secure Encrypted
Virtualization (SEV) feature.
The mask is applied when page tables entries are created or modified.
CC: Jeff Fan <jeff.fan@intel.com>
Cc: Feng Tian <feng.tian@intel.com>
Cc: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Leo Duran <leo.duran@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Fan <jeff.fan@intel.com>
Add memory attribute setting in CpuArch protocol.
Previous SetMemoryAttributes() API only supports cache attribute setting.
This patch updated SetMemoryAttributes() API to support memory attribute
setting by updating CPU page table.
Cc: Jeff Fan <jeff.fan@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Fan <jeff.fan@intel.com>
Jian J Wang
Jeff Fan
Leo Duran
Jiewen Yao