[edk2-devel] [PATCH V4 09/10] OvmfPkg: Disable variable runtime cache

[Kubacki, Michael A]

Sets gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdEnableVariableRuntimeCache
to FALSE in OvmfPkgIa32.dsc, OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc, and OvmfPkgX64.dsc
so that when SMM_REQUIRE is TRUE, the SMM variable driver will not
use the runtime variable cache.

This is done for OvmfPkg because it currently depends upon a SMM
variable GetVariable ()implementation as a simple method to exercise
the SMM driver stack. This allows the following commands to be used
for variables such as Boot####, BootOrder, and BootNext to test SMM
timing and stability differences on the BSP (e.g. CPU#0) vs an
AP (e.g. CPU#1).
 # taskset -c 0 efibootmgr
 # taskset -c 1 efibootmgr

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao at intel.com>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com>
Cc: Hao A Wu <hao.a.wu at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kubacki <michael.a.kubacki at intel.com>
---
 OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc    | 1 +
 OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc | 1 +
 OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc     | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc
index 66e944436a..4861e2342b 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc
+++ b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc
@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@
 !if $(SMM_REQUIRE) == TRUE
   gUefiOvmfPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdSmmSmramRequire|TRUE
   gUefiCpuPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdCpuSmmEnableBspElection|FALSE
+  gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdEnableVariableRuntimeCache|FALSE
 !endif
 
 [PcdsFixedAtBuild]
diff --git a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc
index 51c2bfb44f..f316d97d6a 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc
+++ b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc
@@ -433,6 +433,7 @@
 !if $(SMM_REQUIRE) == TRUE
   gUefiOvmfPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdSmmSmramRequire|TRUE
   gUefiCpuPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdCpuSmmEnableBspElection|FALSE
+  gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdEnableVariableRuntimeCache|FALSE
 !endif
 
 [PcdsFixedAtBuild]
diff --git a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc
index ba7a758844..546649f0a2 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc
+++ b/OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc
@@ -433,6 +433,7 @@
 !if $(SMM_REQUIRE) == TRUE
   gUefiOvmfPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdSmmSmramRequire|TRUE
   gUefiCpuPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdCpuSmmEnableBspElection|FALSE
+  gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdEnableVariableRuntimeCache|FALSE
 !endif
 
 [PcdsFixedAtBuild]
-- 
2.16.2.windows.1


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