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[v9,1/7] x86/sgx: Add new sgx_epc_page flag bit to mark in-use pages

Message ID 20211011185924.374213-2-tony.luck@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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Series [v9,1/7] x86/sgx: Add new sgx_epc_page flag bit to mark in-use pages | expand

Commit Message

Tony Luck Oct. 11, 2021, 6:59 p.m. UTC
SGX EPC pages go through the following life cycle:

        DIRTY ---> FREE ---> IN-USE --\
                    ^                 |
                    \-----------------/

Recovery action for poison for a DIRTY or FREE page is simple. Just
make sure never to allocate the page. IN-USE pages need some extra
handling.

Add a new flag bit SGX_EPC_PAGE_IN_USE that is set when a page
is allocated and cleared when the page is freed.

Notes:

1) These transitions are made while holding the node->lock so that
   future code that checks the flags while holding the node->lock
   can be sure that if the SGX_EPC_PAGE_IN_USE bit is set, then the
   page is on the free list.

2) Initially while the pages are on the dirty list the
   SGX_EPC_PAGE_IN_USE bit is set.

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c | 4 +++-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/sgx.h  | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Sean Christopherson Oct. 15, 2021, 10:57 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, Tony Luck wrote:
> SGX EPC pages go through the following life cycle:
> 
>         DIRTY ---> FREE ---> IN-USE --\
>                     ^                 |
>                     \-----------------/
> 
> Recovery action for poison for a DIRTY or FREE page is simple. Just
> make sure never to allocate the page. IN-USE pages need some extra
> handling.
> 
> Add a new flag bit SGX_EPC_PAGE_IN_USE that is set when a page
> is allocated and cleared when the page is freed.
> 
> Notes:
> 
> 1) These transitions are made while holding the node->lock so that
>    future code that checks the flags while holding the node->lock
>    can be sure that if the SGX_EPC_PAGE_IN_USE bit is set, then the
>    page is on the free list.
> 
> 2) Initially while the pages are on the dirty list the
>    SGX_EPC_PAGE_IN_USE bit is set.

This needs to state _why_ pages are marked as IN_USE from the get-go.  Ignoring
the "Notes", the whole changelog clearly states the the DIRTY state does _not_
require special handling, but then "Add SGX infrastructure to recover from poison"
goes and relies on it being set.

Alternatively, why not invert it and have SGX_EPC_PAGE_FREE?  That would have
clear semantics, the poison recovery code wouldn't have to assume that !flags
means "free", and the whole changelog becomes:

  Add a flag to explicitly track whether or not an EPC page is on a free list,
  memory failure recovery code needs to be able to detect if a poisoned page is
  free so that recovery can know if it's safe to "steal" the page.
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
index 63d3de02bbcc..d18988a46c13 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
@@ -472,6 +472,7 @@  static struct sgx_epc_page *__sgx_alloc_epc_page_from_node(int nid)
 	page = list_first_entry(&node->free_page_list, struct sgx_epc_page, list);
 	list_del_init(&page->list);
 	sgx_nr_free_pages--;
+	page->flags = SGX_EPC_PAGE_IN_USE;
 
 	spin_unlock(&node->lock);
 
@@ -626,6 +627,7 @@  void sgx_free_epc_page(struct sgx_epc_page *page)
 
 	list_add_tail(&page->list, &node->free_page_list);
 	sgx_nr_free_pages++;
+	page->flags = 0;
 
 	spin_unlock(&node->lock);
 }
@@ -651,7 +653,7 @@  static bool __init sgx_setup_epc_section(u64 phys_addr, u64 size,
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 		section->pages[i].section = index;
-		section->pages[i].flags = 0;
+		section->pages[i].flags = SGX_EPC_PAGE_IN_USE;
 		section->pages[i].owner = NULL;
 		list_add_tail(&section->pages[i].list, &sgx_dirty_page_list);
 	}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/sgx.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/sgx.h
index 4628acec0009..f9202d3d6278 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/sgx.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/sgx.h
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ 
 /* Pages, which are being tracked by the page reclaimer. */
 #define SGX_EPC_PAGE_RECLAIMER_TRACKED	BIT(0)
 
+/* Allocated pages */
+#define SGX_EPC_PAGE_IN_USE		BIT(1)
+
 struct sgx_epc_page {
 	unsigned int section;
 	unsigned int flags;