Re: [PATCH v2 00/25] KVM SGX virtualization support

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Wed Mar 10 2021 - 13:02:00 EST


On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 10:30:37AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 02:38:49PM +1300, Kai Huang wrote:
> > This series adds KVM SGX virtualization support. The first 14 patches starting
> > with x86/sgx or x86/cpu.. are necessary changes to x86 and SGX core/driver to
> > support KVM SGX virtualization, while the rest are patches to KVM subsystem.
>
> Ok, I guess I'll queue 1-14 once Sean doesn't find anything
> objectionable then give Paolo an immutable commit to base the KVM stuff
> ontop.
>
> Unless folks have better suggestions, ofc.

I'm otherwise cool with that, except patch #2.

It's based on this series:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sgx/20210113233541.17669-1-jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx/

It's not reasonable to create driver specific wrapper for
sgx_free_epc_page() because there is exactly *2* call sites of the function
in the driver. The driver contains 10 call sites (11 after my NUMA patches
have been applied) of sgx_free_epc_page() in total.

Instead, it is better to add explicit EREMOVE to those call sites.

The wrapper only trashes the codebase. I'm not happy with it, given all the
trouble to make it clean and sound.

> Thx.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
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/Jarkko