Re: [PATCH] ArmPkg-Drivers/CpuDxe: Fix Mmu Initialization Problem.

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

On 26 September 2016 at 10:22, Kurt Kennett <Kurt.Kennett@microsoft.com> wrote:
> During Mmu initialization in the CpuDxe, for a page table any bits set
> in the 'NextSectionAttributes' are garbage and were set from bits that
> are actually part of the pagetable address.  We clear it out to zero
> so that the SyncCacheConfigPage will use the page attributes instead
> of trying to convert the (bogus) section attributes into page
> attributes.
>
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
>
> Signed-off-by: Kurt Kennett <mailto:kurt.kennett@microsoft.com>
> ---
> ArmPkg/Drivers/CpuDxe/Arm/Mmu.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/ArmPkg/Drivers/CpuDxe/Arm/Mmu.c b/ArmPkg/Drivers/CpuDxe/Arm/Mmu.c index 63da8ba..64ef1bb 100644
> --- a/ArmPkg/Drivers/CpuDxe/Arm/Mmu.c
> +++ b/ArmPkg/Drivers/CpuDxe/Arm/Mmu.c
> @@ -297,6 +297,11 @@ SyncCacheConfig (
>        }
>        NextRegionLength += TT_DESCRIPTOR_SECTION_SIZE;
>      } else if (TT_DESCRIPTOR_SECTION_TYPE_IS_PAGE_TABLE(FirstLevelTable[i])) {
> +      // In this case any bits set in the 'NextSectionAttributes' are garbage and were set from
> +      // bits that are actually part of the pagetable address.  We clear it out to zero so that
> +      // the SyncCacheConfigPage will use the page attributes instead of trying to convert the
> +      // section attributes into page attributes
> +      NextSectionAttributes = 0;

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