Re: [PATCH v2 06/18] x86/sgx: Introduce RECLAIM_IN_PROGRESS flag for EPC pages

[Dave Hansen]

On 12/2/22 10:36, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> When selecting pages to be reclaimed from the page pool (sgx_global_lru),
> the list of reclaimable pages is walked, and any page that is both
> reclaimable and not in the process of being freed is added to a list of
> potential candidates to be reclaimed. After that, this separate list is
> further examined and may or may not ultimately be reclaimed. In order
> to prevent this page from being removed from the sgx_epc_lru_lists
> struct in a separate thread by sgx_drop_epc_page(), keep track of
> whether the EPC page is in the middle of being reclaimed with
> the addtion of a RECLAIM_IN_PROGRESS flag, and do not delete the page
> off the LRU in sgx_drop_epc_page() if it has not yet finished being
> reclaimed.

This never really comes out and tells us what problem is being addressed.