Re: [RFC PATCH 01/23] x86/sgx: Split out adding EPC page to free list to separate helper

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On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 14:55 +1300, Kai Huang wrote:
> From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> SGX virtualization requires to allocate "raw" EPC and use it as virtual
> EPC for SGX guest.  Unlike EPC used by SGX driver, virtual EPC doesn't
> track how EPC pages are used in VM, e.g. (de)construction of enclaves,
> so it cannot guarantee EREMOVE success, e.g. it doesn't have a priori
> knowledge of which pages are SECS with non-zero child counts.
> 
> Split sgx_free_page() into two parts so that the "add to free list"
> part can be used by virtual EPC without having to modify the EREMOVE
> logic in sgx_free_page().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>

I have a better idea with the same outcome for KVM.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sgx/20210111223610.62261-1-jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#t

/Jarkko




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