Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] introduce MAX_ALLOC_ADDRESS to limit boot time allocations

[Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 21:56, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Since modifying MAX_ADDRESS to limit the memory used at boot time has
> turned out to be intractible, this series proposes another approach to do
> the same, by introducing MAX_ALLOC_ADDRESS for firmware internal use.
>
> I tested these patches with ArmVirtQemu in the following way:
> - limit MAX_ALLOC_ADDRESS to 0xFFFFFFFF (4 GB)
> - build QEMU_EFI.fd
> - run it under mach-virt with 4 GB of DRAM and highmem=off
>
> This runs as expected, and produces a memory map ending in the following
> lines
>
> BS_Data    00000000FFFFD000-00000000FFFFFFFF 0000000000000003 0000000000000008
> Available  0000000100000000-000000013FFFFFFF 0000000000040000 0000000000000008
>
> which proves that the memory above the limit is recorded and reported by
> the OS, but left untouched by the firmware memory allocation routines.
>
> Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
> Cc: Jian J Wang <jian.j.wang@intel.com>
> Cc: Hao Wu <hao.a.wu@intel.com>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
> Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daude <philmd@redhat.com>
>
> Ard Biesheuvel (6):
>   MdePkg/Base: introduce MAX_ALLOC_ADDRESS
>   MdeModulePkg/Dxe/Gcd: disregard memory above MAX_ALLOC_ADDRESS
>   MdeModulePkg/Dxe/Page: take MAX_ALLOC_ADDRESS into account
>   ArmPkg/ArmMmuLib: take MAX_ALLOC_ADDRESS into account
>   ArmPlatformPkg/MemoryInitPeim: take MAX_ALLOC_ADDRESS into account
>   ArmVirtPkg/MemoryInitPeiLib: split memory HOB based on
>     MAX_ALLOC_ADDRESS
>

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Thanks all