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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for_v23 v3 09/12] x86/sgx: Split second half of sgx_free_page() to a separate helper
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:59:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191023115931.GC23733@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191022033617.GD32147@linux.intel.com>

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 08:36:17PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 01:06:55PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:37:42AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > Move the post-reclaim half of sgx_free_page() to a standalone helper so
> > > that it can be used in flows where the page is known to be
> > > non-reclaimable.
> > 
> > The call sites wher it is known to be reclaimable should handle the
> > error instead of creating call site specific versions of the function.
> 
> What if we completely split the function(s)?  The existing callers of
> sgx_free_page() stay as is, there is one and only one "free_page()", we
> don't take sgx_active_page_list_lock in most flows, and the one case
> where failure is acceptable gets to do its thing.  I think this'd make
> both of us happy.  E.g.:

The split is a clean way to sort this out.

Makes sense also from "symmetry" perspective: we don't mark pages
reclaimable in sgx_alloc_page().

/Jarkko

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-23 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-16 18:37 [PATCH for_v23 v3 00/12] x86/sgx: Bug fixes for v23 Sean Christopherson
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 01/12] x86/sgx: Pass EADD the kernel's virtual address for the source page Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18  9:57   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-22  3:22     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-23 11:57       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 02/12] x86/sgx: Check the validity of the source page address for EADD Sean Christopherson
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 03/12] x86/sgx: Fix EEXTEND error handling Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18 10:42   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 04/12] x86/sgx: Drop mmap_sem before EEXTENDing an enclave page Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18 10:04   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 05/12] x86/sgx: Remove redundant message from WARN on non-emtpy mm_list Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18 12:08   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 06/12] x86/sgx: Fix a memory leak in sgx_encl_destroy() Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18 12:17   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 07/12] x86/sgx: WARN on any non-zero return from __eremove() Sean Christopherson
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 08/12] x86/sgx: WARN only once if EREMOVE fails Sean Christopherson
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 09/12] x86/sgx: Split second half of sgx_free_page() to a separate helper Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18 10:06   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-22  3:36     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-23 11:59       ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 10/12] x86/sgx: Use the post-reclaim variant of __sgx_free_page() Sean Christopherson
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 11/12] x86/sgx: Don't update free page count if EPC section allocation fails Sean Christopherson
2019-10-16 18:37 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 12/12] x86/sgx: Reinstate per EPC section free page counts Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18 12:49   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-18 12:55     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-18 14:30     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-21 11:19       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-22 19:35         ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-23 12:02           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-17 18:10 ` [PATCH for_v23 v3 00/12] x86/sgx: Bug fixes for v23 Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-17 18:12   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-18 13:13   ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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