[edk2-devel] edk2 memory map on QEMU

[Stuart Yoder]

On 7/30/21 3:36 PM, Andrew Fish wrote:
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>> On Jul 30, 2021, at 12:32 PM, Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder at arm.com <mailto:stuart.yoder at arm.com>> wrote:
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>> I am playing around with EDK2 on QEMU with a UEFI shell application and in the app I allocate some memory using gBS->AllocatePool(EfiBootServicesData, ...)
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>> Programmatically accessing the pointer returned works fine, but when I print it, it does not seem to be what I would expect is a valid address.
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>> I've allocated 4GB to the QEMU machine, which I believe starts at 0x40000000.
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> You can run the `memmap` command at the EFI Shell to see the layout.
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>> But, when I print the address returned by AllocatePool the value is "0x39177018".
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> Print != printf on some of the format string so be careful about that….
> 

I figured it out.  It was a dumb Print() formatting error that resulted in
the address getting truncated to 8 bytes.

Thanks,
Stuart


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