On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 10:02:16PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:58 PM Jarkko Sakkinen > <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Add a Enclave Page Cache (EPC) memory manager that can be used to > > allocate and free EPC pages. The swapper thread ksgxswapd reclaims pages > > on the event when the number of free EPC pages goes below > > %SGX_NR_LOW_PAGES up until it reaches %SGX_NR_HIGH_PAGES. > > > > Pages are reclaimed in LRU fashion from a global list. The consumers > > take care of calling EBLOCK (block page from new accesses), ETRACK > > (restart counting the entering hardware threads) and EWB (write page to > > the regular memory) because executing these operations usually (if not > > always) requires to do some subsystem-internal locking operations. > > > + list_del(&page->list); > > Is this page will be completely gone? Otherwise it might be needed to > reinit list head here as well. The swapper cannot access the page once it has been removed from the list of active pages so it does not matter whether this is list_del() or list_del_init(). > > + WARN(ret < 0, "sgx: cannot free page, reclaim in-progress"); > > + WARN(ret > 0, "sgx: EREMOVE returned %d (0x%x)", ret, ret); > > I'm not sure (though it's easy to check) that you need sgx: prefix > here. WARN() might take pr_fmt() if defined. Sean, you took care of this one. Was it so that WARN() does not respect pr_fmt? /Jarkko