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From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>,
	"Dmitrii Kuvaiskii" <dmitrii.kuvaiskii@intel.com>,
	<dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, <kai.huang@intel.com>,
	<haitao.huang@linux.intel.com>, <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
	<linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: mona.vij@intel.com, kailun.qin@intel.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	"Marcelina Kościelnicka" <mwk@invisiblethingslab.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/sgx: Resolve EAUG race where losing thread returns SIGBUS
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:22:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D0WN0B2JL7N4.V0GPQWA79SJ5@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0WMM3MYQODE.3A89L7D6OVG3E@kernel.org>

On Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 4:04 PM EEST, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Fix these two bugs (1) by returning VM_FAULT_NOPAGE to the generic Linux
> > fault handler so that no signal is sent to userspace, and (2) by
> > replacing sgx_encl_free_epc_page() with sgx_free_epc_page() so that no
> > EREMOVE is performed.
>
> What is the collateral damage caused by ENCLS[EREMOVE]?

Have you measured cost of eremove on an empty page?

I tried to lookup for a thread from lore because I have a faint memory
that it was concluded that its cost irrelevant. Please correct if I'm
wrong.

BR, Jarkko

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-29 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-29 10:43 [PATCH 0/2] x86/sgx: Fix two data races in EAUG/EREMOVE flows Dmitrii Kuvaiskii
2024-04-29 10:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/sgx: Resolve EAUG race where losing thread returns SIGBUS Dmitrii Kuvaiskii
2024-04-29 13:04   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-04-29 13:22     ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2024-04-29 13:24       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-04-30 14:37     ` Dmitrii Kuvaiskii
2024-05-10 23:47       ` Reinette Chatre
2024-04-29 10:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/sgx: Resolve EREMOVE page vs EAUG page data race Dmitrii Kuvaiskii
2024-04-29 13:11   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-04-30 14:38     ` Dmitrii Kuvaiskii
2024-05-10 23:47       ` Reinette Chatre
2024-04-29 13:06 ` [PATCH 0/2] x86/sgx: Fix two data races in EAUG/EREMOVE flows Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-04-30 14:35   ` Dmitrii Kuvaiskii

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