Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] x86/sgx: Add infrastructure to identify SGX EPC pages

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 12:55 -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> X86 machine check architecture reports a physical address when there
> is a memory error. Handling that error requires a method to determine
> whether the physical address reported is in any of the areas reserved
> for EPC pages by BIOS.
> 
> SGX EPC pages do not have Linux "struct page" associated with them.
> 
> Keep track of the mapping from ranges of EPC pages to the sections
> that contain them using an xarray.
> 
> Create a function sgx_is_epc_page() that simply reports whether an address
> is an EPC page for use elsewhere in the kernel. The ACPI error injection
> code needs this function and is typically built as a module, so export it.
> 
> Note that sgx_is_epc_page() will be slower than other similar "what type
> is this page" functions that can simply check bits in the "struct page".
> If there is some future performance critical user of this function it
> may need to be implemented in a more efficient way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/sgx.h  |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
> index 4a5b51d16133..261f81b3f8af 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ struct sgx_epc_section sgx_epc_sections[SGX_MAX_EPC_SECTIONS];
>  static int sgx_nr_epc_sections;
>  static struct task_struct *ksgxd_tsk;
>  static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(ksgxd_waitq);
> +static DEFINE_XARRAY(epc_page_ranges);

Maybe we could just call this "sgx_epc_address_space"?

/Jarkko