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

From: Kai Huang
Date: Tue Mar 02 2021 - 02:47:30 EST


On Mon, 2021-03-01 at 08:21 -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2021, Kai Huang wrote:
> > + /*
> > + * SECS pages are "pinned" by child pages, an unpinned once all
>
> s/an/and

Thanks!

>
> > + * 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;
> > +}