linux-kernel - RE: [RFC PATCH 3/9] x86/sgx: Allow userspace to add multiple pages in single ioctl()

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Message-ID: <960B34DE67B9E140824F1DCDEC400C0F654ED499@ORSMSX116.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 3 Jun 2019 23:48:47 +0000
From:   "Xing, Cedric" <cedric.xing@...el.com>
To:     "Christopherson, Sean J" <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>
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Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 3/9] x86/sgx: Allow userspace to add multiple pages
 in single ioctl()



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopherson, Sean J
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2019 1:37 PM
> To: Hansen, Dave <dave.hansen@...el.com>
> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>; Andy Lutomirski
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> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/9] x86/sgx: Allow userspace to add multiple
> pages in single ioctl()
> 
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 01:14:45PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On 5/31/19 4:31 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > -struct sgx_enclave_add_page {
> > > +struct sgx_enclave_add_pages {
> > >  	__u64	addr;
> > >  	__u64	src;
> > >  	__u64	secinfo;
> > > +	__u32	nr_pages;
> > >  	__u16	mrmask;
> > >  } __attribute__((__packed__));
> >
> > IMNHO this follows a user interface anti-pattern: exposing page sizes
> > where not strictly required.
> >
> > Think of how this would look to an application if page size was
> > variable.  With this interface, they always need to scale their
> > operations by page size instead of just aligning it.
> 
> I briefly considered taking size in bytes, but I took a shortcut because
> EPC pages are architecturally defined to be 4k sized and aligned.  That
> being said, I don't necessarily disagree, especially if nr_pages isn't
> squeezed into a u32.
> 
> > BTW, why is nr_pages a u32?  Do we never envision a case where you can
> > add more than 4TB of memory to an enclave? ;)
> 
> Heh, fair enough.  IIRC, a while back someone posted about having
> problems building a 512gb enclave in a 92mb EPC...
> 
> How about this for the intermediate patch:
> 
> 	struct sgx_enclave_add_region {
> 		__u64	addr;
> 		__u64	src;
> 		__u64	size;
> 		__u64	secinfo;
> 		__u16	mrmask;
> 		__u16	reserved16;
> 		__u32	reserved;
> 	}
> 
> and with the flags field:
> 
> 	struct sgx_enclave_add_region {
> 		__u64	addr;
> 		__u64	src;
> 		__u64	size;
> 		__u64	secinfo;
> 		__u16	mrmask;
> 		__u16	flags;

What is "flags" here?

> 		__u32	reserved;
> 	}