Thread (61 messages) 61 messages, 6 authors, 2021-03-10

Re: [PATCH 05/25] x86/sgx: Introduce virtual EPC for use by KVM guests

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Date: 2021-03-01 17:04:58
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2021, Kai Huang wrote:
+	/*
+	 * SECS pages are "pinned" by child pages, an unpinned once all
s/an/and
+	 * children have been EREMOVE'd.  A child page in this instance
+	 * may have pinned an SECS page encountered in an earlier release(),
+	 * creating a zombie.  Since some children were EREMOVE'd above,
+	 * try to EREMOVE all zombies in the hopes that one was unpinned.
+	 */
+	mutex_lock(&zombie_secs_pages_lock);
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(epc_page, tmp, &zombie_secs_pages, list) {
+		/*
+		 * Speculatively remove the page from the list of zombies,
+		 * if the page is successfully EREMOVE it will be added to
+		 * the list of free pages.  If EREMOVE fails, throw the page
+		 * on the local list, which will be spliced on at the end.
+		 */
+		list_del(&epc_page->list);
+
+		if (sgx_vepc_free_page(epc_page))
+			list_add_tail(&epc_page->list, &secs_pages);
+	}
+
+	if (!list_empty(&secs_pages))
+		list_splice_tail(&secs_pages, &zombie_secs_pages);
+	mutex_unlock(&zombie_secs_pages_lock);
+
+	kfree(vepc);
+
+	return 0;
+}
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