From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de, bp@alien8.de,
luto@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, seanjc@google.com, kai.huang@intel.com,
cathy.zhang@intel.com, cedric.xing@intel.com,
haitao.huang@intel.com, mark.shanahan@intel.com, hpa@zytor.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/25] x86/sgx: Support adding of pages to initialized enclave
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 10:00:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce00226feaa02dbc0f66f3f8aa7a243f61e410aa.camel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc6ecffd-7d4b-0b15-eaf1-6f585e8b31be@intel.com>
On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 13:44 -0800, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Hi Jarkko,
>
> On 12/4/2021 3:13 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > "to initialize" -> "to an initialized"
>
> Will do.
>
>
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 11:23:11AM -0800, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> > > With SGX1 an enclave needs to be created with its maximum memory demands
> > > allocated. Pages cannot be added to an enclave after it is initialized.
> > > SGX2 introduces a new function, ENCLS[EAUG], that can be used to add
> > > pages to an initialized enclave. With SGX2 the enclave still needs to
> > > set aside address space for its maximum memory demands during enclave
> > > creation, but all pages need not be added before enclave initialization.
> > > Pages can be added during enclave runtime.
> > >
> > > Add support for dynamically adding pages to an initialized enclave,
> > > architecturally limited to RW permission. Add pages via the page fault
> > > handler at the time an enclave address without a backing enclave page
> > > is accessed, potentially directly reclaiming pages if no free pages
> > > are available.
> > >
> > > The enclave is still required to run ENCLU[EACCEPT] on the page before
> > > it can be used. A useful flow is for the enclave to run ENCLU[EACCEPT]
> > > on an uninitialized address. This will trigger the page fault handler
> > > that will add the enclave page and return execution to the enclave to
> > > repeat the ENCLU[EACCEPT] instruction, this time successful.
> > >
> > > If the enclave accesses an uninitialized address in another way, for
> > > example by expanding the enclave stack to a page that has not yet been
> > > added, then the page fault handler would add the page on the first
> > > write but upon returning to the enclave the instruction that triggered
> > > the page fault would be repeated and since ENCLU[EACCEPT] was not run
> > > yet it would trigger a second page fault, this time with the SGX flag
> > > set in the page fault error code. This can only be recovered by entering
> > > the enclave again and directly running the ENCLU[EACCEPT] instruction on
> > > the now initialized address.
> > >
> > > Accessing an uninitialized address from outside the enclave also triggers
> > > this flow but the page will remain in PENDING state until accepted from
> > > within the enclave.
> >
> > What does it mean being in PENDING state, and more imporantly, what is
> > PENDING state? What does a memory access within enclave cause when it
> > touch a page within this state?
>
> The PENDING state is the enclave page state from the SGX hardware's
> perspective. The OS uses the ENCLS[EAUG] SGX2 function to add a new page
> to the enclave but from the SGX hardware's perspective it would be in a
> PENDING state until the enclave accepts the page. An access to the page
> in PENDING state would result in a page fault.
>
>
> > I see a lot of text in the commit message but zero mentions about EPCM
> > expect this one sudden mention about PENDING field without attaching
> > it to anything concrete.
>
> My apologies - I will add this to this changelog. This matches your
> request to describe the __eaug() wrapper introduced in patch 02/25.
> Would you like me to duplicate this information here and in that patch
> (a new patch dedicated to the __eaug() wrapper) or would you be ok if I
> introduce the wrappers all together briefly as in the example you
> provide and then detail the flows where the wrappers are used - like
> this patch?
I think it would be a good place to describe these details in 02/25,
and skip them in rest of the patches.
/Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-11 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 155+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-01 19:22 [PATCH 00/25] x86/sgx and selftests/sgx: Support SGX2 Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:22 ` [PATCH 01/25] x86/sgx: Add shortlog descriptions to ENCLS wrappers Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 18:30 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:13 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-11 5:28 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-13 22:06 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 02/25] x86/sgx: Add wrappers for SGX2 functions Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 22:04 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:15 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 03/25] x86/sgx: Support VMA permissions exceeding enclave permissions Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 22:25 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-04 22:27 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:16 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-11 5:39 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-13 22:08 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 04/25] x86/sgx: Add pfn_mkwrite() handler for present PTEs Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 22:43 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:18 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-11 7:37 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-13 22:09 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-28 14:51 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 05/25] x86/sgx: Introduce runtime protection bits Reinette Chatre
2021-12-03 19:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-12-03 22:12 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 0:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-12-04 1:14 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 17:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-12-04 23:55 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-13 22:34 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 23:57 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:20 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-11 7:42 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-13 22:10 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-28 14:52 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-06 17:46 ` Reinette Chatre
2022-01-07 12:16 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-07 16:14 ` Haitao Huang
2022-01-08 15:45 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-08 15:51 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-08 16:22 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-10 22:05 ` Haitao Huang
2022-01-11 1:53 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-11 1:55 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-11 2:03 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-11 2:15 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-11 3:48 ` Haitao Huang
2022-01-12 23:48 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-13 2:41 ` Haitao Huang
2022-01-14 21:36 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-11 17:13 ` Reinette Chatre
2022-01-12 23:50 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-12 23:56 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-13 20:09 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2022-01-13 21:42 ` Reinette Chatre
2022-01-14 21:53 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-14 21:57 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-14 22:00 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-14 22:17 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-14 22:23 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-14 22:34 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-14 23:05 ` Reinette Chatre
2022-01-14 23:15 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-15 0:01 ` Reinette Chatre
2022-01-15 0:27 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-15 0:41 ` Reinette Chatre
2022-01-15 1:18 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-15 11:56 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-15 11:59 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-17 13:13 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2022-01-18 1:59 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-18 2:22 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-18 3:31 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-18 20:59 ` Reinette Chatre
2022-01-20 12:53 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-20 16:52 ` Reinette Chatre
2022-01-26 14:41 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-15 16:49 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-18 21:18 ` Reinette Chatre
2022-01-17 13:27 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2022-01-18 21:11 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 22:50 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:28 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 06/25] x86/sgx: Use more generic name for enclave cpumask function Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 22:56 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:29 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 07/25] x86/sgx: Move PTE zap code to separate function Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 22:59 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:30 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-11 7:52 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-13 22:11 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-28 14:55 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-01-06 17:46 ` Reinette Chatre
2022-01-07 12:26 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 08/25] x86/sgx: Make SGX IPI callback available internally Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 23:00 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:36 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-11 7:53 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 09/25] x86/sgx: Keep record of SGX page type Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 23:03 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 10/25] x86/sgx: Support enclave page permission changes Reinette Chatre
2021-12-02 23:48 ` Dave Hansen
2021-12-03 18:18 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-03 0:32 ` Dave Hansen
2021-12-03 18:18 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-03 18:14 ` Dave Hansen
2021-12-03 18:49 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-03 19:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-12-03 22:34 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 0:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-12-04 1:35 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 23:08 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 20:19 ` Dave Hansen
2021-12-11 5:17 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:42 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-11 7:57 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-13 22:12 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-28 14:56 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 11/25] selftests/sgx: Add test for EPCM " Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 12/25] selftests/sgx: Add test for TCS page " Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 13/25] x86/sgx: Support adding of pages to initialized enclave Reinette Chatre
2021-12-03 0:38 ` Dave Hansen
2021-12-03 18:47 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 23:13 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:44 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-11 8:00 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2021-12-13 22:12 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-28 14:57 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-03-01 15:13 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-03-01 17:08 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 14/25] x86/sgx: Tighten accessible memory range after enclave initialization Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 23:14 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:45 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-11 8:01 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 15/25] selftests/sgx: Test two different SGX2 EAUG flows Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 16/25] x86/sgx: Support modifying SGX page type Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 23:45 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:48 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-11 8:02 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-13 17:43 ` Dave Hansen
2021-12-21 8:52 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 17/25] x86/sgx: Support complete page removal Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 23:45 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 21:49 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 18/25] selftests/sgx: Introduce dynamic entry point Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 19/25] selftests/sgx: Introduce TCS initialization enclave operation Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 20/25] selftests/sgx: Test complete changing of page type flow Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 21/25] selftests/sgx: Test faulty enclave behavior Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 22/25] selftests/sgx: Test invalid access to removed enclave page Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 23/25] selftests/sgx: Test reclaiming of untouched page Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 24/25] x86/sgx: Free up EPC pages directly to support large page ranges Reinette Chatre
2021-12-04 23:47 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-12-06 22:07 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 19:23 ` [PATCH 25/25] selftests/sgx: Page removal stress test Reinette Chatre
2021-12-02 18:30 ` [PATCH 00/25] x86/sgx and selftests/sgx: Support SGX2 Dave Hansen
2021-12-02 20:38 ` Nathaniel McCallum
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