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From: "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: "Xu, Min M" <min.m.xu@intel.com>
Cc: "devel@edk2.groups.io" <devel@edk2.groups.io>,
	"Aktas, Erdem" <erdemaktas@google.com>,
	James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Yao, Jiewen" <jiewen.yao@intel.com>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] OvmfPkg: Reserve the Ovmf work area as RT_DATA
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 09:37:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220823073759.qwcbpaohiqjnzrrh@sirius.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PH0PR11MB50642A7F37ED0E350F471717C5709@PH0PR11MB5064.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

  Hi,

> Ah, I forget to reserve the work-area as RT_Data in below code:
>       BuildMemoryAllocationHob (
>         (EFI_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS)(UINTN)FixedPcdGet32 (PcdOvmfWorkAreaBase),
>         (UINT64)(UINTN)FixedPcdGet32 (PcdOvmfWorkAreaSize),
>         PlatformInfoHob->S3Supported ? EfiACPIMemoryNVS : EfiRuntimeServicesData  <-- ACPI_NVS is not accessible either in OS-Runtime.
>         );
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/MemDetect.c#L1022-L1026

With that changed to use EfiRuntimeServicesData unconditionally the page
fault is gone.

> Gerd, do you think we can reserve Ovmf WorkArea as RT_Data even when S3 is supported?

Hmm, not fully sure how the various memory types are handled when the
VM is suspended.

take care,
  Gerd


  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-23  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-22  2:23 [PATCH 1/1] OvmfPkg: Reserve the Ovmf work area as RT_DATA Min Xu
2022-08-22  8:51 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-08-23  1:34   ` Min Xu
2022-08-23  7:37     ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2022-08-23  8:40       ` Min Xu
2022-08-23 13:07         ` Lendacky, Thomas
2022-08-25  5:47           ` [edk2-devel] " Min Xu
2022-08-25  7:42             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-08-25  7:56               ` Min Xu
2022-08-25  8:15                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-08-22 13:18 ` Lendacky, Thomas
2022-08-23  1:38   ` Min Xu

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