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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org, dave.hansen@intel.com,
	nhorman@redhat.com, npmccallum@redhat.com, serge.ayoun@intel.com,
	shay.katz-zamir@intel.com, haitao.huang@intel.com,
	andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	kai.svahn@intel.com, Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>,
	"open list:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" 
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 18/22] platform/x86: Intel SGX driver
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 16:46:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181108144603.GA14072@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181107180057.GB24807@linux.intel.com>

On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 10:00:57AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> What do we gain by a single buffer vs. separate buffers?  The ioctl()
> would be slightly smaller but it seems like the actual code would be
> more complex.

I'm fine with either. It was just a suggestion.

> The enclave build process also utilizes the backing as temp storage
> to avoid having to alloc kernel memory when queueing pages to be added
> by the worker thread (which reminds me that I wanted to document why a
> worker thread is used).  Keeping this behavior would effectively make
> providing backing mandatory.

Would it be a problem just allocate those pages with alloc_page() and
free them in the worker thread?

> Are there any potential complications with ENCLS consuming userspace
> pointers?  We'd have to wrap them with user_access_{begin,end}() and
> probably tweak the fixup, but I assume having the fixup handler means
> we're generally ok?

Last time I did it I used get_user_pages() for pinning. I'm not sure
why I should do anything but just re-use that.

/Jarkko

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-08 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-06 13:45 [PATCH v16 00/22] Intel SGX1 support Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 01/22] x86/sgx: Update MAINTAINERS Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 02/22] x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel-defined SGX feature bit Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 03/22] x86/cpufeatures: Add SGX sub-features (as Linux-defined bits) Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 04/22] x86/msr: Add IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL.SGX_ENABLE definition Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 05/22] x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel-defined SGX_LC feature bit Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 06/22] x86/cpu/intel: Detect SGX support and update caps appropriately Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:58   ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-06 13:58     ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-07 15:58     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 07/22] x86/mm: x86/sgx: Add new 'PF_SGX' page fault error code bit Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 08/22] x86/mm: x86/sgx: Signal SIGSEGV for userspace #PFs w/ PF_SGX Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 09/22] x86/sgx: Define SGX1 and SGX2 ENCLS leafs Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 10/22] x86/sgx: Add ENCLS architectural error codes Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 11/22] x86/sgx: Add SGX1 and SGX2 architectural data structures Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 12/22] x86/sgx: Add definitions for SGX's CPUID leaf and variable sub-leafs Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 13/22] x86/msr: Add SGX Launch Control MSR definitions Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 14/22] x86/sgx: Add wrappers for ENCLS leaf functions Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 15/22] x86/sgx: Enumerate and track EPC sections Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 16/22] x86/sgx: Add functions to allocate and free EPC pages Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 17/22] x86/sgx: Add sgx_einit() for initializing enclaves Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 18/22] platform/x86: Intel SGX driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 16:40   ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-06 16:57     ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-07 16:37     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-07 18:00       ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-07 18:00         ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-08 14:46         ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2018-11-15 20:00           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-15 20:04             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-15 20:16               ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-21 11:46                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-07 10:29   ` David Laight
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 19/22] platform/x86: sgx: Add swapping functionality to the " Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45 ` [PATCH v16 20/22] x86/sgx: Add a simple swapper for the EPC memory manager Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:46 ` [PATCH v16 21/22] platform/x86: ptrace() support for the SGX driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:46   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:46 ` [PATCH v16 22/22] x86/sgx: SGX documentation Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 13:46   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-27 20:13   ` Pavel Machek

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