linux-kernel - Re: RFC: userspace exception fixups

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Date:   Sun, 18 Nov 2018 09:18:16 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Christopherson, Sean J" <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Jethro Beekman <jethro@...tanix.com>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, nhorman@...hat.com,
        npmccallum@...hat.com, "Ayoun, Serge" <serge.ayoun@...el.com>,
        shay.katz-zamir@...el.com, linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: RFC: userspace exception fixups

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 09:15:48AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:53:40AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > Hi all-
> > 
> > The people working on SGX enablement are grappling with a somewhat
> > annoying issue: the x86 EENTER instruction is used from user code and
> > can, as part of its normal-ish operation, raise an exception.  It is
> > also highly likely to be used from a library, and signal handling in
> > libraries is unpleasant at best.
> > 
> > There's been some discussion of adding a vDSO entry point to wrap
> > EENTER and do something sensible with the exceptions, but I'm
> > wondering if a more general mechanism would be helpful.
> 
> I haven't really followed all of this discussion because I've been busy
> working on the patch set but for me all of these approaches look awfully
> complicated.
> 
> I'll throw my own suggestion and apologize if this has been already
> suggested and discarded: return-to-AEP.
> 
> My idea is to do just a small extension to SGX AEX handling. At the
> moment hardware will RAX, RBX and RCX with ERESUME parameters. We can
> fill extend this by filling other three spare registers with exception

s/fill extend/extend/

/Jarkko