I was wondering what the history was behind svn r14846?

When I synced with this version my platform crashed. It seems to be making an 
implementation assumptions that go beyond what is in the PI spec, and that 
would imply this library should be in the MdeModulePkg. Not mention the 
assumptions should be document. 

This code seems to assume it is safe to move the PEI Services Table Retrieval 
location plus the IDT. This is not the case on our system, and we had the 
debugger doing the relocation. So doing the migration here, and updating the 
IDTR break us. I don’t see how we are doing anything wrong from a PI 1.3 point 
of view?

Just to be clear it is not illegal for us to store info at the ITD - 0x10 per 
the PI spec, but this code would break that scheme. 

https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2/MdePkg/Library/PeiServicesTablePointerLibIdt/PeiServicesTablePointer.c

VOID
EFIAPI
SetPeiServicesTablePointer (
  IN CONST EFI_PEI_SERVICES ** PeiServicesTablePointer
  )
{
  IA32_DESCRIPTOR        Idtr;
  EFI_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS   IdtBase;
  EFI_STATUS             Status;
  EFI_PEI_TEMPORARY_RAM_SUPPORT_PPI   *TemporaryRamSupportPpi;
  
  ASSERT (PeiServicesTablePointer != NULL);
  AsmReadIdtr (&Idtr);
  if ((*(UINTN*)(Idtr.Base - sizeof (UINTN))) != 
(UINTN)PeiServicesTablePointer) {
    (*(UINTN*)(Idtr.Base - sizeof (UINTN))) = (UINTN)PeiServicesTablePointer;
    Status = (*PeiServicesTablePointer)->LocatePpi (
                                          PeiServicesTablePointer, 
                                          &gEfiTemporaryRamSupportPpiGuid, 
                                          0, 
                                          NULL, 
                                          (VOID**)&TemporaryRamSupportPpi
                                         );
                                      
    if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
      //
      // If TemporaryRamSupportPpi is not found, Idt table needs to be migrated 
into memory.
      //
      Status = (*PeiServicesTablePointer)->AllocatePages (
                                            PeiServicesTablePointer, 
                                            EfiBootServicesCode,
                                            EFI_SIZE_TO_PAGES(Idtr.Limit + 1 + 
sizeof (UINTN)),
                                            &IdtBase
                                            );
      if (!EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
        //
        // Migrate Idt table
        //
        CopyMem ((VOID *) (UINTN) IdtBase, (VOID *) (Idtr.Base - sizeof 
(UINTN)), Idtr.Limit + 1 + sizeof (UINTN));
        Idtr.Base = (UINTN) IdtBase + sizeof (UINTN);
        AsmWriteIdtr (&Idtr);
      }
    }
  }
}

Thanks,

Andrew Fish
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