linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 02/18] cgroup/misc: Add SGX EPC resource type and export APIs for SGX driver

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Message-ID: <ZRHWaZB5BeXt2EcY@slm.duckdns.org>
Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2023 08:50:17 -1000
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Haitao Huang <haitao.huang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     jarkko@...nel.org, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com,
        sohil.mehta@...el.com, zhiquan1.li@...el.com,
        kristen@...ux.intel.com, seanjc@...gle.com, zhanb@...rosoft.com,
        anakrish@...rosoft.com, mikko.ylinen@...ux.intel.com,
        yangjie@...rosoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/18] cgroup/misc: Add SGX EPC resource type and
 export APIs for SGX driver

On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 08:06:41PM -0700, Haitao Huang wrote:
> From: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Add SGX EPC memory, MISC_CG_RES_SGX_EPC, to be a valid resource type
> for the misc controller.
> 
> Add per resource type private data so that SGX can store additional per
> cgroup data in misc_cg->misc_cg_res[MISC_CG_RES_SGX_EPC].
> 
> Export misc_cg_root() so the SGX driver can initialize and add those
> additional structures to the root misc cgroup as part of initialization
> for EPC cgroup support. This bootstraps the same additional
> initialization for non-root cgroups in the 'alloc()' callback added in the
> previous patch.
> 
> The SGX driver, as the EPC memory provider, will have a background
> worker to reclaim EPC pages to make room for new allocations in the same
> cgroup when its usage counter reaches near the limit controlled by the
> cgroup and its ancestors. Therefore it needs to do a walk from the
> current cgroup up to the root. To enable this walk, move parent_misc()
> into misc_cgroup.h and make inline to make this function available to
> SGX, rename it to misc_cg_parent(), and update kernel/cgroup/misc.c to
> use the new name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Haitao Huang <haitao.huang@...ux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun