Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/sgx: Use a heap allocated list head for unsanitized pages

[Dave Hansen]

On 9/5/22 20:12, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Allocate the list head for the unsanitized pages from heap, and transfer
> its to ownership to ksgxd, which takes care of destroying it. Remove
> sgx_dirty_page_list, as a global list is no longer required.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Depends on https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sgx/20220906000221.34286-1-jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
> Would this be plausible?
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

What's the benefit?  I guess it saves 16 bytes of kernel image for ~20
lines of code.  Does it add more than 16 bytes to kernel text? ;)