[RFC PATCH v2.1 29/30] x86/sgx: Free up EPC pages directly to support large page ranges

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Fri Mar 04 2022 - 04:39:10 EST


From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>

The page reclaimer ensures availability of EPC pages across all
enclaves. In support of this it runs independently from the
individual enclaves in order to take locks from the different
enclaves as it writes pages to swap.

When needing to load a page from swap an EPC page needs to be
available for its contents to be loaded into. Loading an existing
enclave page from swap does not reclaim EPC pages directly if
none are available, instead the reclaimer is woken when the
available EPC pages are found to be below a watermark.

When iterating over a large number of pages in an oversubscribed
environment there is a race between the reclaimer woken up and
EPC pages reclaimed fast enough for the page operations to proceed.

Ensure there are EPC pages available before attempting to load
a page that may potentially be pulled from swap into an available
EPC page.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c | 6 ++++++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c | 6 ++++++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/sgx.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c
index 99cba5837acc..d9a5eafda759 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c
@@ -818,6 +818,8 @@ static long sgx_enclave_restrict_perm(struct sgx_encl *encl,
for (c = 0 ; c < modp->length; c += PAGE_SIZE) {
addr = encl->base + modp->offset + c;

+ sgx_direct_reclaim();
+
mutex_lock(&encl->lock);

entry = sgx_encl_load_page(encl, addr);
@@ -1002,6 +1004,8 @@ static long sgx_enclave_modt(struct sgx_encl *encl,
for (c = 0 ; c < modt->length; c += PAGE_SIZE) {
addr = encl->base + modt->offset + c;

+ sgx_direct_reclaim();
+
mutex_lock(&encl->lock);

entry = sgx_encl_load_page(encl, addr);
@@ -1200,6 +1204,8 @@ static long sgx_encl_remove_pages(struct sgx_encl *encl,
for (c = 0 ; c < params->length; c += PAGE_SIZE) {
addr = encl->base + params->offset + c;

+ sgx_direct_reclaim();
+
mutex_lock(&encl->lock);

entry = sgx_encl_load_page(encl, addr);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
index 1a3014aec490..a1cb7435932a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
@@ -378,6 +378,12 @@ static bool sgx_should_reclaim(unsigned long watermark)
!list_empty(&sgx_active_page_list);
}

+void sgx_direct_reclaim(void)
+{
+ if (sgx_should_reclaim(SGX_NR_LOW_PAGES))
+ sgx_reclaim_pages();
+}
+
static int ksgxd(void *p)
{
set_freezable();
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/sgx.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/sgx.h
index b30cee4de903..85cbf103b0dd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/sgx.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/sgx.h
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ static inline void *sgx_get_epc_virt_addr(struct sgx_epc_page *page)
struct sgx_epc_page *__sgx_alloc_epc_page(void);
void sgx_free_epc_page(struct sgx_epc_page *page);

+void sgx_direct_reclaim(void);
void sgx_mark_page_reclaimable(struct sgx_epc_page *page);
int sgx_unmark_page_reclaimable(struct sgx_epc_page *page);
struct sgx_epc_page *sgx_alloc_epc_page(void *owner, bool reclaim);
--
2.35.1