Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 3/4] MdeModulePkg/DxeIpl: Introduce PCD PcdUse5LevelPageTable

["Wu, Hao A" <hao.a.wu@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io [mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ni,
> Ray
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 4:16 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io
> Cc: Dong, Eric; Laszlo Ersek
> Subject: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 3/4] MdeModulePkg/DxeIpl: Introduce PCD
> PcdUse5LevelPageTable
> 
> REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2008
> 
> The PCD indicates if 5-Level Paging will be enabled in long mode.
> 5-Level Paging will not be enabled when the PCD is TRUE but CPU
> doesn't support 5-Level Paging.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ray Ni <ray.ni@intel.com>
> Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> ---
>  MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec | 7 +++++++


Hello,

Please help to add the PCD description string definitions in MdeModulePkg.uni.

One question, is this PCD introduced for the consideration of memory
consumption by the page table entries? Or is there any other purpose?

Best Regards,
Hao Wu


>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec
> b/MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec
> index 12e0bbf579..21388595a9 100644
> --- a/MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec
> +++ b/MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec
> @@ -1991,6 +1991,13 @@ [PcdsFixedAtBuild, PcdsPatchableInModule,
> PcdsDynamic, PcdsDynamicEx]
>    # @Prompt The address mask when memory encryption is enabled.
> 
> gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdPteMemoryEncryptionAddressOrM
> ask|0x0|UINT64|0x30001047
> 
> +  ## Indicates if 5-Level Paging will be enabled in long mode. 5-Level Paging
> will not be enabled
> +  #  when the PCD is TRUE but CPU doesn't support 5-Level Paging.
> +  #   TRUE  - 5-Level Paging will be enabled.<BR>
> +  #   FALSE - 5-Level Paging will not be enabled.<BR>
> +  # @Prompt Enable 5-Level Paging support in long mode.
> +
> gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdUse5LevelPageTable|FALSE|BOOLE
> AN|0x0001105F
> +
>    ## Capsule In Ram is to use memory to deliver the capsules that will be
> processed after system
>    #  reset.<BR><BR>
>    #  This PCD indicates if the Capsule In Ram is supported.<BR>
> --
> 2.21.0.windows.1
> 
> 
>