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authorPatrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@9elements.com>2019-02-21 10:27:04 +0100
committerPhilipp Deppenwiese <zaolin.daisuki@gmail.com>2019-07-02 08:45:50 +0000
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cpu/x86/pae/pgtbl: Add memset with PAE
To clear all DRAM on x86_32, add a new method that uses PAE to access more than 32bit of address space. Add Documentation as well. Required for clearing all system memory as part of security API. Tested on wedge100s: Takes less than 2 seconds to clear 8GiB of DRAM. Tested on P8H61M-Pro: Takes less than 1 second to clear 4GiB of DRAM. Change-Id: I00f7ecf87b5c9227a9d58a0b61eecc38007e1a57 Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@9elements.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31549 Reviewed-by: Philipp Deppenwiese <zaolin.daisuki@gmail.com> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
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@@ -42,3 +42,7 @@ Without MTRRs (and caches enabled) clearing memory takes multiple seconds.
As some platforms place code and stack in DRAM (FSP1.0), the regions can be
skipped.
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+## Architecture specific implementations
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+* [x86 PAE](../arch/x86/pae.md)