I do not suggest we define PAGE_TABLE_POOL_HEADER.
If we can figure out other way, that will be better.

Thank you
Yao Jiewen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wang, Jian J
> Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 5:26 PM
> To: Zeng, Star <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Cc: Yao, Jiewen <[email protected]>; Ni, Ruiyu <[email protected]>; Dong,
> Eric <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [edk2] [PATCH v2 0/4] Enable page table write protection
> 
> That means we can't share page table pool between DxeIpl and CpuDxe. If this 
> is
> acceptable, I can remove them.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Zeng, Star
> > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 5:11 PM
> > To: Wang, Jian J <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> > Cc: Yao, Jiewen <[email protected]>; Ni, Ruiyu <[email protected]>;
> Dong,
> > Eric <[email protected]>; Zeng, Star <[email protected]>
> > Subject: RE: [edk2] [PATCH v2 0/4] Enable page table write protection
> >
> > Recommend to not introduce the new header file and PCDs as new interfaces,
> > but handle the page table pool separately in DxeIpl and CpuDxe.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Star
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: edk2-devel [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jian
> J
> > Wang
> > Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 4:36 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [edk2] [PATCH v2 0/4] Enable page table write protection
> >
> > > v2 changes:
> > >  a. Enable protection on any newly added page table after DxeIpl.
> > >  b. Introduce page table pool concept to make page table allocation
> > >     and protection easier and error free.
> >
> > Write Protect feature (CR0.WP) is always enabled in driver
> UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe.
> > But the memory pages used for page table are not set as read-only in the 
> > driver
> > DxeIplPeim, after the paging is setup. This might jeopardize the page table
> > integrity if there's buffer overflow occured in other part of system.
> >
> > This patch series will change this situation by clearing R/W bit in page 
> > attribute
> > of the pages used as page table.
> >
> > Validation works include booting Windows (10/server 2016) and Linux
> > (Fedora/Ubuntu) on OVMF and Intel real platform.
> >
> > Jian J Wang (4):
> >   MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec: Add new PCDs and Guid
> >   MdeModulePkg/PageTablePool.h: Page table pool GUID definition file
> >   MdeModulePkg/DxeIpl: Mark page table as read-only
> >   UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe: Enable protection for newly added page table
> >
> >  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/DxeIpl.h            |  34 +++
> >  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/DxeIpl.inf          |   3 +
> >  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/Ia32/DxeLoadFunc.c  |   8 +-
> >  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.c | 315
> > +++++++++++++++++++++-
> > MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.h |  15 ++
> >  MdeModulePkg/Include/Guid/PageTablePool.h        |  53 ++++
> >  MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec                    |  28 ++
> >  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuDxe.c                       |  17 +-
> >  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuDxe.h                       |   2 +
> >  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuDxe.inf                     |   3 +
> >  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuPageTable.c                 | 329
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuPageTable.h                 |  22 ++
> >  12 files changed, 816 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)  create mode 100644
> > MdeModulePkg/Include/Guid/PageTablePool.h
> >
> > --
> > 2.14.1.windows.1
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