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From: "Zeng, Star" <star.zeng@intel.com>
To: "Ni, Ray" <ray.ni@intel.com>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	"Kinney, Michael D" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>,
	"devel@edk2.groups.io" <devel@edk2.groups.io>
Cc: "Dong, Eric" <eric.dong@intel.com>,
	"Kumar, Rahul1" <rahul1.kumar@intel.com>,
	"Zeng, Star" <star.zeng@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/1] UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib: Fix AP VolatileRegisters race condition
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 03:34:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM6PR11MB4058C3E196CA660691D0FBCCE3BC9@DM6PR11MB4058.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CO1PR11MB4930DAFD2EC99F5058882D368CBC9@CO1PR11MB4930.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ni, Ray <ray.ni@intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 10:26 AM
> To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>; Zeng, Star <star.zeng@intel.com>;
> Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io
> Cc: Dong, Eric <eric.dong@intel.com>; Kumar, Rahul1
> <rahul1.kumar@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/1] UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib: Fix AP
> VolatileRegisters race condition
> 
> > >     CpuMpData = (CPU_MP_DATA *) (Idtr.Base + Idtr.Limit + 1);
> > > +    ASSERT (CpuMpData != NULL);
> 
> In this case, Idtr.Base, Idtr.Limit both equal to zero and CpuMpData is 1.
> ASSERT () cannot trigger assertion here.

Oh, got it. Then the assert may be like below to check Idtr.Base.
ASSERT (Idtr.Base != 0);

Thanks,
Star


      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-26  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-22 17:10 [Patch 1/1] UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib: Fix AP VolatileRegisters race condition Michael D Kinney
2021-01-23  2:02 ` [edk2-devel] " Laszlo Ersek
2021-01-26  6:47   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-01-23  5:10 ` Dong, Eric
2021-01-25  3:14 ` [edk2-devel] " Zeng, Star
2021-01-25  5:15   ` Michael D Kinney
2021-01-25  8:43     ` Zeng, Star
2021-01-25  8:53       ` Ni, Ray
2021-01-25 11:04         ` Zeng, Star
2021-01-25 21:17           ` Laszlo Ersek
2021-01-26  1:18             ` Zeng, Star
2021-01-26  2:26             ` Ni, Ray
2021-01-26  3:34               ` Zeng, Star [this message]

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