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,
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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)"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 18/22] platform/x86: Intel SGX driver
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 16:46:03 +0200
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
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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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