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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	dave.hansen@intel.com, nhorman@redhat.com, npmccallum@redhat.com,
	haitao.huang@intel.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, kai.svahn@intel.com, josh@joshtriplett.org,
	luto@kernel.org, kai.huang@intel.com, rientjes@google.com,
	cedric.xing@intel.com, puiterwijk@redhat.com,
	Jethro Beekman <jethro@fortanix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v30 08/20] x86/sgx: Add functions to allocate and free EPC pages
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 09:51:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200528065104.GA188849@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200528005217.GB25962@linux.intel.com>

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 05:52:17PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:46:38PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 09:21:11PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > In other words, sgx_alloc_epc_section() is poorly named.  It doesn't
> > > actually allocate EPC, it allocates kernel structures to map and track EPC.
> > > sgx_(un)map_epc_section() would be more accurate and would hopefully
> > > alleviate some of the confusion.
> > 
> > Makes sense.
> > 
> > > I have no objection to renaming __sgx_alloc_try_alloc_page() to something
> > > like sgx_alloc_epc_page_section or whatever, but IMO using get/put will be
> > > horrendously confusing.
> > 
> > Ok. My only issue is that the naming nomenclature sounds strange and
> > confusing as it is. "try" in an "alloc" function is kinda tautological -
> > of course the function will try to do its best. :)
> 
> Heh, so what you're saying is we should add __sgx_really_try_alloc_page()?
> 
> > And there are three functions having "alloc" in the name so I can
> > imagine someone getting very confused when having to stare at that code.
> > 
> > So at least naming them in a way so that it is clear what kind of pages
> > they "allocate" - i.e., what they actually do - would be a step in the
> > right direction...
> 
> Ya, and things will only get more confusing when actual NUMA awareness gets
> thrown into the mix.
> 
> Jarkko, splicing in the NUMA awareness code, what do you think about:
> 
>   sgx_alloc_epc_section -> sgx_map_epc_section
>   sgx_free_epc_section  -> sgx_unmap_epc_section

Here alloc makes sense because memory gets allocated for the data
structures.

>   sgx_alloc_page        -> sgx_alloc_epc_page
>   sgx_free_page         -> sgx_free_epc_page
> 
>   sgx_try_alloc_page    -> sgx_alloc_epc_page_node
>   __sgx_try_alloc_page  -> sgx_alloc_epc_page_section

I'm going with sgx_grab_page() and sgx_try_grab_page().

/Jarkko

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-28  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-15  0:43 [PATCH v30 00/20] Intel SGX foundations Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 01/20] x86/cpufeatures: x86/msr: Add Intel SGX hardware bits Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-20 12:16   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-20 14:00     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 02/20] x86/cpufeatures: x86/msr: Intel SGX Launch Control " Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-20 12:23   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-20 14:04     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 03/20] x86/mm: x86/sgx: Signal SIGSEGV with PF_SGX Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 04/20] x86/sgx: Add SGX microarchitectural data structures Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-20 18:47   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-20 21:04     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22 15:54     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-22 16:13       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22 19:50         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-25  8:20           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-27 19:43             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 05/20] x86/sgx: Add wrappers for ENCLS leaf functions Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 06/20] x86/cpu/intel: Detect SGX support Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 07/20] x86/sgx: Enumerate and track EPC sections Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-25  9:23   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-27  3:56     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-27 20:35       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-28  7:36         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  5:25       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  5:35         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  6:14           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  6:16             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  5:13     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 08/20] x86/sgx: Add functions to allocate and free EPC pages Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-26 12:52   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-27  4:21     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-27 20:46       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-28  0:52         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-28  6:51           ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2020-05-28  1:23         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  1:36           ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-28  6:52             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28 17:16               ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-28 17:19                 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-28 17:27                   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-28 17:34                     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-28 19:07                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28 19:59                   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-29  3:28                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29  3:37                       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-29  5:07                         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29  8:12                         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29  8:13                           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29  3:38                       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 09/20] mm: Introduce vm_ops->may_mprotect() Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29 12:10   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-29 18:18     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29 18:28   ` Dave Hansen
2020-05-31 23:12     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 10/20] x86/sgx: Linux Enclave Driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-21 19:12   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22 19:26     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-22 19:39     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-22  3:33   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 11/20] x86/sgx: Add provisioning Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 12/20] x86/sgx: Add a page reclaimer Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-22  6:58   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22 19:57     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-22 21:52       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22  7:15   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22 19:47     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 13/20] x86/sgx: ptrace() support for the SGX driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 14/20] x86/vdso: Add support for exception fixup in vDSO functions Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 15/20] x86/fault: Add helper function to sanitize error code Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 16/20] x86/traps: Attempt to fixup exceptions in vDSO before signaling Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 17/20] x86/vdso: Implement a vDSO for Intel SGX enclave call Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 18/20] selftests/x86: Add a selftest for SGX Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 19/20] docs: x86/sgx: Document SGX micro architecture and kernel internals Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 20/20] x86/sgx: Update MAINTAINERS Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-16  8:57 ` [PATCH] x86/cpu/intel: Add nosgx kernel parameter Jarkko Sakkinen

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