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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.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 20:37:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200529033716.GH30353@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200529032816.GC6182@linux.intel.com>

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 06:28:16AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:59:17PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 10:07:18PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > >  * sgx_grab_page() - Grab a free EPC page
> > >  * @owner:	the owner of the EPC page
> > >  * @reclaim:	reclaim pages if necessary
> > >  *
> > >  * Iterate through EPC sections and borrow a free EPC page to the caller. When a
> > >  * page is no longer needed it must be released with sgx_free_page(). If
> > >  * @reclaim is set to true, directly reclaim pages when we are out of pages. No
> > >  * mm's can be locked when @reclaim is set to true.
> > >  *
> > >  * Finally, wake up ksgxswapd when the number of pages goes below the watermark
> > >  * before returning back to the caller.
> > >  *
> > >  * Return:
> > >  *   an EPC page,
> > >  *   -errno on error
> > >  */
> > > 
> > > I also rewrote the kdoc.
> > > 
> > > I do agree that sgx_try_grab_page() should be renamed as __sgx_grab_page().
> > 
> > FWIW, I really, really dislike "grab".  The nomenclature for normal memory
> > and pages uses "alloc" when taking a page off a free list, and "grab" when
> > elevating the refcount.  I don't understand the motivation for diverging
> > from that.  SGX is weird enough as is, using names that don't align with
> > exist norms will only serve to further obfuscate the code.
> 
> OK, what would be a better name then? The semantics are not standard
> memory allocation semantics in the first place. And kdoc in v30 speaks
> about grabbing.

In what way are they not standard allocation semantics?  sgx_alloc_page()
is an API to allocate (EPC) memory on-demand, sgx_free_page() is its partner
to free that memory when it is no longer needed.  There are many different
ways to manage and allocate memory, but the basic premise is the same for
all and no different than what we're doing.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-29  3:37 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
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 [this message]
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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