Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: fix a NULL pointer

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On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:36:53 -0500, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 7/18/23 14:22, Haitao Huang wrote:
I agree this is the race. But for this to happen, that is at #1 you have
only one non-SECS page left so #3 can happen. That means it is already
high pressure

I think our definitions of memory pressure differ.

Pressure is raised by allocations and dropped by reclaim.  This
raise->drop cycle is (or should be) time-limited and can't take forever.
 The reclaim either works in a short period of time or something dies.
If allocations are transient, pressure is transient.

Let's say a pressure blip (a one-time event) comes along and pages out
that second-to-last page.  That's pretty low pressure.  Years pass.  The
enclave never gets run.  Nothing pages the second-to-last page back in.
A second pressure blip comes along.  The SECS page gets paged out.

That's two pressure blips in, say 10 years.  Is that "high pressure"?

Okay, that explains. I would consider it still triggered by high pressure blips :-)

But I agree we can drop the mentioning of pressure altogether and just state the race so no confusions.
Thanks
Haitao



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