[edk2-devel] [Patch V2 09/14] UefiCpuPkg/CpuPageTableLib: Add OUTPUT IsModified parameter.

duntan dun.tan at intel.com
Wed Mar 15 09:49:33 UTC 2023


Thanks for the comments. Will change the code and add the comments in next version patch.
Thanks,
Dun

-----Original Message-----
From: Ni, Ray <ray.ni at intel.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 2:02 PM
To: Tan, Dun <dun.tan at intel.com>; devel at edk2.groups.io
Cc: Dong, Eric <eric.dong at intel.com>; Kumar, Rahul R <rahul.r.kumar at intel.com>; Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
Subject: RE: [Patch V2 09/14] UefiCpuPkg/CpuPageTableLib: Add OUTPUT IsModified parameter.

> +  IA32_PAGING_ENTRY   ParentPagingEntryContent;
1. how about "OriginalParentPagingEntry"?

> +  IA32_PAGING_ENTRY   PrevLeafPagingEntryContent;
2. how about "OriginalCurrentPagingEntry"?

> 
> +  //
> +  // Check if ParentPagingEntry entry is modified.
> +  //
3. Can you add more comments to explain why checking parent entry content is enough?

> +  if (ParentPagingEntryContent.Uint64 != ParentPagingEntry->Uint64) {
> +    if (IsModified != NULL) {
4. Can you always pass a non-NULL IsModified to MapInLevel()?

5. By the way, it's good that this patch doesn't enhance test case to test IsModified return value.


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