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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T03:29:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-14T03:29:45+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - More userfaultfs work from Peter Xu

 - Several convert-to-folios series from Sidhartha Kumar and Huang Ying

 - Some filemap cleanups from Vishal Moola

 - David Hildenbrand added the ability to selftest anon memory COW
   handling

 - Some cpuset simplifications from Liu Shixin

 - Addition of vmalloc tracing support by Uladzislau Rezki

 - Some pagecache folioifications and simplifications from Matthew
   Wilcox

 - A pagemap cleanup from Kefeng Wang: we have VM_ACCESS_FLAGS, so use
   it

 - Miguel Ojeda contributed some cleanups for our use of the
   __no_sanitize_thread__ gcc keyword.

   This series should have been in the non-MM tree, my bad

 - Naoya Horiguchi improved the interaction between memory poisoning and
   memory section removal for huge pages

 - DAMON cleanups and tuneups from SeongJae Park

 - Tony Luck fixed the handling of COW faults against poisoned pages

 - Peter Xu utilized the PTE marker code for handling swapin errors

 - Hugh Dickins reworked compound page mapcount handling, simplifying it
   and making it more efficient

 - Removal of the autonuma savedwrite infrastructure from Nadav Amit and
   David Hildenbrand

 - zram support for multiple compression streams from Sergey Senozhatsky

 - David Hildenbrand reworked the GUP code's R/O long-term pinning so
   that drivers no longer need to use the FOLL_FORCE workaround which
   didn't work very well anyway

 - Mel Gorman altered the page allocator so that local IRQs can remnain
   enabled during per-cpu page allocations

 - Vishal Moola removed the try_to_release_page() wrapper

 - Stefan Roesch added some per-BDI sysfs tunables which are used to
   prevent network block devices from dirtying excessive amounts of
   pagecache

 - David Hildenbrand did some cleanup and repair work on KSM COW
   breaking

 - Nhat Pham and Johannes Weiner have implemented writeback in zswap's
   zsmalloc backend

 - Brian Foster has fixed a longstanding corner-case oddity in
   file[map]_write_and_wait_range()

 - sparse-vmemmap changes for MIPS, LoongArch and NIOS2 from Feiyang
   Chen

 - Shiyang Ruan has done some work on fsdax, to make its reflink mode
   work better under xfstests. Better, but still not perfect

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed the .writepage() method from several
   filesystems. They only need .writepages()

 - Yosry Ahmed wrote a series which fixes the memcg reclaim target
   beancounting

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed some of our MM selftests for 32-bit
   machines

 - Many singleton patches, as usual

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (313 commits)
  mm/hugetlb: set head flag before setting compound_order in __prep_compound_gigantic_folio
  mm: mmu_gather: allow more than one batch of delayed rmaps
  mm: fix typo in struct pglist_data code comment
  kmsan: fix memcpy tests
  mm: add cond_resched() in swapin_walk_pmd_entry()
  mm: do not show fs mm pc for VM_LOCKONFAULT pages
  selftests/vm: ksm_functional_tests: fixes for 32bit
  selftests/vm: cow: fix compile warning on 32bit
  selftests/vm: madv_populate: fix missing MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) definitions
  mm/gup_test: fix PIN_LONGTERM_TEST_READ with highmem
  mm,thp,rmap: fix races between updates of subpages_mapcount
  mm: memcg: fix swapcached stat accounting
  mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim
  mm: disable top-tier fallback to reclaim on proactive reclaim
  selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected
  selftests: cgroup: refactor proactive reclaim code to reclaim_until()
  mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg
  mm/mmap: properly unaccount memory on mas_preallocate() failure
  omfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  jfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - More userfaultfs work from Peter Xu

 - Several convert-to-folios series from Sidhartha Kumar and Huang Ying

 - Some filemap cleanups from Vishal Moola

 - David Hildenbrand added the ability to selftest anon memory COW
   handling

 - Some cpuset simplifications from Liu Shixin

 - Addition of vmalloc tracing support by Uladzislau Rezki

 - Some pagecache folioifications and simplifications from Matthew
   Wilcox

 - A pagemap cleanup from Kefeng Wang: we have VM_ACCESS_FLAGS, so use
   it

 - Miguel Ojeda contributed some cleanups for our use of the
   __no_sanitize_thread__ gcc keyword.

   This series should have been in the non-MM tree, my bad

 - Naoya Horiguchi improved the interaction between memory poisoning and
   memory section removal for huge pages

 - DAMON cleanups and tuneups from SeongJae Park

 - Tony Luck fixed the handling of COW faults against poisoned pages

 - Peter Xu utilized the PTE marker code for handling swapin errors

 - Hugh Dickins reworked compound page mapcount handling, simplifying it
   and making it more efficient

 - Removal of the autonuma savedwrite infrastructure from Nadav Amit and
   David Hildenbrand

 - zram support for multiple compression streams from Sergey Senozhatsky

 - David Hildenbrand reworked the GUP code's R/O long-term pinning so
   that drivers no longer need to use the FOLL_FORCE workaround which
   didn't work very well anyway

 - Mel Gorman altered the page allocator so that local IRQs can remnain
   enabled during per-cpu page allocations

 - Vishal Moola removed the try_to_release_page() wrapper

 - Stefan Roesch added some per-BDI sysfs tunables which are used to
   prevent network block devices from dirtying excessive amounts of
   pagecache

 - David Hildenbrand did some cleanup and repair work on KSM COW
   breaking

 - Nhat Pham and Johannes Weiner have implemented writeback in zswap's
   zsmalloc backend

 - Brian Foster has fixed a longstanding corner-case oddity in
   file[map]_write_and_wait_range()

 - sparse-vmemmap changes for MIPS, LoongArch and NIOS2 from Feiyang
   Chen

 - Shiyang Ruan has done some work on fsdax, to make its reflink mode
   work better under xfstests. Better, but still not perfect

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed the .writepage() method from several
   filesystems. They only need .writepages()

 - Yosry Ahmed wrote a series which fixes the memcg reclaim target
   beancounting

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed some of our MM selftests for 32-bit
   machines

 - Many singleton patches, as usual

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (313 commits)
  mm/hugetlb: set head flag before setting compound_order in __prep_compound_gigantic_folio
  mm: mmu_gather: allow more than one batch of delayed rmaps
  mm: fix typo in struct pglist_data code comment
  kmsan: fix memcpy tests
  mm: add cond_resched() in swapin_walk_pmd_entry()
  mm: do not show fs mm pc for VM_LOCKONFAULT pages
  selftests/vm: ksm_functional_tests: fixes for 32bit
  selftests/vm: cow: fix compile warning on 32bit
  selftests/vm: madv_populate: fix missing MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) definitions
  mm/gup_test: fix PIN_LONGTERM_TEST_READ with highmem
  mm,thp,rmap: fix races between updates of subpages_mapcount
  mm: memcg: fix swapcached stat accounting
  mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim
  mm: disable top-tier fallback to reclaim on proactive reclaim
  selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected
  selftests: cgroup: refactor proactive reclaim code to reclaim_until()
  mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg
  mm/mmap: properly unaccount memory on mas_preallocate() failure
  omfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  jfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_sgx_for_6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T22:18:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T22:18:44+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 sgx updates from Dave Hansen:
 "The biggest deal in this series is support for a new hardware feature
  that allows enclaves to detect and mitigate single-stepping attacks.

  There's also a minor performance tweak and a little piece of the
  kmap_atomic() -&gt; kmap_local() transition.

  Summary:

   - Introduce a new SGX feature (Asynchrounous Exit Notification) for
     bare-metal enclaves and KVM guests to mitigate single-step attacks

   - Increase batching to speed up enclave release

   - Replace kmap/kunmap_atomic() calls"

* tag 'x86_sgx_for_6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/sgx: Replace kmap/kunmap_atomic() calls
  KVM/VMX: Allow exposing EDECCSSA user leaf function to KVM guest
  x86/sgx: Allow enclaves to use Asynchrounous Exit Notification
  x86/sgx: Reduce delay and interference of enclave release
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Pull x86 sgx updates from Dave Hansen:
 "The biggest deal in this series is support for a new hardware feature
  that allows enclaves to detect and mitigate single-stepping attacks.

  There's also a minor performance tweak and a little piece of the
  kmap_atomic() -&gt; kmap_local() transition.

  Summary:

   - Introduce a new SGX feature (Asynchrounous Exit Notification) for
     bare-metal enclaves and KVM guests to mitigate single-step attacks

   - Increase batching to speed up enclave release

   - Replace kmap/kunmap_atomic() calls"

* tag 'x86_sgx_for_6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/sgx: Replace kmap/kunmap_atomic() calls
  KVM/VMX: Allow exposing EDECCSSA user leaf function to KVM guest
  x86/sgx: Allow enclaves to use Asynchrounous Exit Notification
  x86/sgx: Reduce delay and interference of enclave release
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<entry>
<title>x86/sgx: Replace kmap/kunmap_atomic() calls</title>
<updated>2022-12-02T13:59:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kristen Carlson Accardi</name>
<email>kristen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-15T16:16:26+00:00</published>
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kmap_local_page() is the preferred way to create temporary mappings when it
is feasible, because the mappings are thread-local and CPU-local.

kmap_local_page() uses per-task maps rather than per-CPU maps. This in
effect removes the need to disable preemption on the local CPU while the
mapping is active, and thus vastly reduces overall system latency. It is
also valid to take pagefaults within the mapped region.

The use of kmap_atomic() in the SGX code was not an explicit design choice
to disable page faults or preemption, and there is no compelling design
reason to using kmap_atomic() vs. kmap_local_page().

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi &lt;kristen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fabio M. De Francesco &lt;fmdefrancesco@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sgx/Y0biN3%2FJsZMa0yUr@kernel.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221115161627.4169428-1-kristen@linux.intel.com
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kmap_local_page() is the preferred way to create temporary mappings when it
is feasible, because the mappings are thread-local and CPU-local.

kmap_local_page() uses per-task maps rather than per-CPU maps. This in
effect removes the need to disable preemption on the local CPU while the
mapping is active, and thus vastly reduces overall system latency. It is
also valid to take pagefaults within the mapped region.

The use of kmap_atomic() in the SGX code was not an explicit design choice
to disable page faults or preemption, and there is no compelling design
reason to using kmap_atomic() vs. kmap_local_page().

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi &lt;kristen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fabio M. De Francesco &lt;fmdefrancesco@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sgx/Y0biN3%2FJsZMa0yUr@kernel.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221115161627.4169428-1-kristen@linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>x86/sgx: use VM_ACCESS_FLAGS</title>
<updated>2022-11-09T01:37:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-19T03:49:42+00:00</published>
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Simplify VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC with VM_ACCESS_FLAGS.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221019034945.93081-3-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Cc: "Christian König" &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Pan, Xinhui" &lt;Xinhui.Pan@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Simplify VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC with VM_ACCESS_FLAGS.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221019034945.93081-3-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Cc: "Christian König" &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Pan, Xinhui" &lt;Xinhui.Pan@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/sgx: Add overflow check in sgx_validate_offset_length()</title>
<updated>2022-11-08T19:34:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borys Popławski</name>
<email>borysp@invisiblethingslab.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-04T22:59:03+00:00</published>
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sgx_validate_offset_length() function verifies "offset" and "length"
arguments provided by userspace, but was missing an overflow check on
their addition. Add it.

Fixes: c6d26d370767 ("x86/sgx: Add SGX_IOC_ENCLAVE_ADD_PAGES")
Signed-off-by: Borys Popławski &lt;borysp@invisiblethingslab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0d91ac79-6d84-abed-5821-4dbe59fa1a38@invisiblethingslab.com
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sgx_validate_offset_length() function verifies "offset" and "length"
arguments provided by userspace, but was missing an overflow check on
their addition. Add it.

Fixes: c6d26d370767 ("x86/sgx: Add SGX_IOC_ENCLAVE_ADD_PAGES")
Signed-off-by: Borys Popławski &lt;borysp@invisiblethingslab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0d91ac79-6d84-abed-5821-4dbe59fa1a38@invisiblethingslab.com
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<entry>
<title>x86/sgx: Allow enclaves to use Asynchrounous Exit Notification</title>
<updated>2022-11-04T22:33:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-20T19:13:47+00:00</published>
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Short Version:

Allow enclaves to use the new Asynchronous EXit (AEX)
notification mechanism.  This mechanism lets enclaves run a
handler after an AEX event.  These handlers can run mitigations
for things like SGX-Step[1].

AEX Notify will be made available both on upcoming processors and
on some older processors through microcode updates.

Long Version:

== SGX Attribute Background ==

The SGX architecture includes a list of SGX "attributes".  These
attributes ensure consistency and transparency around specific
enclave features.

As a simple example, the "DEBUG" attribute allows an enclave to
be debugged, but also destroys virtually all of SGX security.
Using attributes, enclaves can know that they are being debugged.
Attributes also affect enclave attestation so an enclave can, for
instance, be denied access to secrets while it is being debugged.

The kernel keeps a list of known attributes and will only
initialize enclaves that use a known set of attributes.  This
kernel policy eliminates the chance that a new SGX attribute
could cause undesired effects.

For example, imagine a new attribute was added called
"PROVISIONKEY2" that provided similar functionality to
"PROVISIIONKEY".  A kernel policy that allowed indiscriminate use
of unknown attributes and thus PROVISIONKEY2 would undermine the
existing kernel policy which limits use of PROVISIONKEY enclaves.

== AEX Notify Background ==

"Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions and Future
Features - Version 45" is out[2].  There is a new chapter:

	Asynchronous Enclave Exit Notify and the EDECCSSA User Leaf Function.

Enclaves exit can be either synchronous and consensual (EEXIT for
instance) or asynchronous (on an interrupt or fault).  The
asynchronous ones can evidently be exploited to single step
enclaves[1], on top of which other naughty things can be built.

AEX Notify will be made available both on upcoming processors and
on some older processors through microcode updates.

== The Problem ==

These attacks are currently entirely opaque to the enclave since
the hardware does the save/restore under the covers. The
Asynchronous Enclave Exit Notify (AEX Notify) mechanism provides
enclaves an ability to detect and mitigate potential exposure to
these kinds of attacks.

== The Solution ==

Define the new attribute value for AEX Notification.  Ensure the
attribute is cleared from the list reserved attributes.  Instead
of adding to the open-coded lists of individual attributes,
add named lists of privileged (disallowed by default) and
unprivileged (allowed by default) attributes.  Add the AEX notify
attribute as an unprivileged attribute, which will keep the kernel
from rejecting enclaves with it set.

1. https://github.com/jovanbulck/sgx-step
2. https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/671368?explicitVersion=true

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Haitao Huang &lt;haitao.huang@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kai Huang &lt;kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220720191347.1343986-1-dave.hansen%40linux.intel.com
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Short Version:

Allow enclaves to use the new Asynchronous EXit (AEX)
notification mechanism.  This mechanism lets enclaves run a
handler after an AEX event.  These handlers can run mitigations
for things like SGX-Step[1].

AEX Notify will be made available both on upcoming processors and
on some older processors through microcode updates.

Long Version:

== SGX Attribute Background ==

The SGX architecture includes a list of SGX "attributes".  These
attributes ensure consistency and transparency around specific
enclave features.

As a simple example, the "DEBUG" attribute allows an enclave to
be debugged, but also destroys virtually all of SGX security.
Using attributes, enclaves can know that they are being debugged.
Attributes also affect enclave attestation so an enclave can, for
instance, be denied access to secrets while it is being debugged.

The kernel keeps a list of known attributes and will only
initialize enclaves that use a known set of attributes.  This
kernel policy eliminates the chance that a new SGX attribute
could cause undesired effects.

For example, imagine a new attribute was added called
"PROVISIONKEY2" that provided similar functionality to
"PROVISIIONKEY".  A kernel policy that allowed indiscriminate use
of unknown attributes and thus PROVISIONKEY2 would undermine the
existing kernel policy which limits use of PROVISIONKEY enclaves.

== AEX Notify Background ==

"Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions and Future
Features - Version 45" is out[2].  There is a new chapter:

	Asynchronous Enclave Exit Notify and the EDECCSSA User Leaf Function.

Enclaves exit can be either synchronous and consensual (EEXIT for
instance) or asynchronous (on an interrupt or fault).  The
asynchronous ones can evidently be exploited to single step
enclaves[1], on top of which other naughty things can be built.

AEX Notify will be made available both on upcoming processors and
on some older processors through microcode updates.

== The Problem ==

These attacks are currently entirely opaque to the enclave since
the hardware does the save/restore under the covers. The
Asynchronous Enclave Exit Notify (AEX Notify) mechanism provides
enclaves an ability to detect and mitigate potential exposure to
these kinds of attacks.

== The Solution ==

Define the new attribute value for AEX Notification.  Ensure the
attribute is cleared from the list reserved attributes.  Instead
of adding to the open-coded lists of individual attributes,
add named lists of privileged (disallowed by default) and
unprivileged (allowed by default) attributes.  Add the AEX notify
attribute as an unprivileged attribute, which will keep the kernel
from rejecting enclaves with it set.

1. https://github.com/jovanbulck/sgx-step
2. https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/671368?explicitVersion=true

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Haitao Huang &lt;haitao.huang@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kai Huang &lt;kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220720191347.1343986-1-dave.hansen%40linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>x86/sgx: Reduce delay and interference of enclave release</title>
<updated>2022-10-31T20:40:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Reinette Chatre</name>
<email>reinette.chatre@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-31T17:29:58+00:00</published>
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commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves") introduced a cond_resched() during enclave
release where the EREMOVE instruction is applied to every 4k enclave
page. Giving other tasks an opportunity to run while tearing down a
large enclave placates the soft lockup detector but Iqbal found
that the fix causes a 25% performance degradation of a workload
run using Gramine.

Gramine maintains a 1:1 mapping between processes and SGX enclaves.
That means if a workload in an enclave creates a subprocess then
Gramine creates a duplicate enclave for that subprocess to run in.
The consequence is that the release of the enclave used to run
the subprocess can impact the performance of the workload that is
run in the original enclave, especially in large enclaves when
SGX2 is not in use.

The workload run by Iqbal behaves as follows:
Create enclave (enclave "A")
/* Initialize workload in enclave "A" */
Create enclave (enclave "B")
/* Run subprocess in enclave "B" and send result to enclave "A" */
Release enclave (enclave "B")
/* Run workload in enclave "A" */
Release enclave (enclave "A")

The performance impact of releasing enclave "B" in the above scenario
is amplified when there is a lot of SGX memory and the enclave size
matches the SGX memory. When there is 128GB SGX memory and an enclave
size of 128GB, from the time enclave "B" starts the 128GB SGX memory
is oversubscribed with a combined demand for 256GB from the two
enclaves.

Before commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves") enclave release was done in a tight loop
without giving other tasks a chance to run. Even though the system
experienced soft lockups the workload (run in enclave "A") obtained
good performance numbers because when the workload started running
there was no interference.

Commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves") gave other tasks opportunity to run while an
enclave is released. The impact of this in this scenario is that while
enclave "B" is released and needing to access each page that belongs
to it in order to run the SGX EREMOVE instruction on it, enclave "A"
is attempting to run the workload needing to access the enclave
pages that belong to it. This causes a lot of swapping due to the
demand for the oversubscribed SGX memory. Longer latencies are
experienced by the workload in enclave "A" while enclave "B" is
released.

Improve the performance of enclave release while still avoiding the
soft lockup detector with two enhancements:
- Only call cond_resched() after XA_CHECK_SCHED iterations.
- Use the xarray advanced API to keep the xarray locked for
  XA_CHECK_SCHED iterations instead of locking and unlocking
  at every iteration.

This batching solution is copied from sgx_encl_may_map() that
also iterates through all enclave pages using this technique.

With this enhancement the workload experiences a 5%
performance degradation when compared to a kernel without
commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves"), an improvement to the reported 25%
degradation, while still placating the soft lockup detector.

Scenarios with poor performance are still possible even with these
enhancements. For example, short workloads creating sub processes
while running in large enclaves. Further performance improvements
are pursued in user space through avoiding to create duplicate enclaves
for certain sub processes, and using SGX2 that will do lazy allocation
of pages as needed so enclaves created for sub processes start quickly
and release quickly.

Fixes: 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when releasing large enclaves")
Reported-by: Md Iqbal Hossain &lt;md.iqbal.hossain@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Md Iqbal Hossain &lt;md.iqbal.hossain@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/00efa80dd9e35dc85753e1c5edb0344ac07bb1f0.1667236485.git.reinette.chatre%40intel.com
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commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves") introduced a cond_resched() during enclave
release where the EREMOVE instruction is applied to every 4k enclave
page. Giving other tasks an opportunity to run while tearing down a
large enclave placates the soft lockup detector but Iqbal found
that the fix causes a 25% performance degradation of a workload
run using Gramine.

Gramine maintains a 1:1 mapping between processes and SGX enclaves.
That means if a workload in an enclave creates a subprocess then
Gramine creates a duplicate enclave for that subprocess to run in.
The consequence is that the release of the enclave used to run
the subprocess can impact the performance of the workload that is
run in the original enclave, especially in large enclaves when
SGX2 is not in use.

The workload run by Iqbal behaves as follows:
Create enclave (enclave "A")
/* Initialize workload in enclave "A" */
Create enclave (enclave "B")
/* Run subprocess in enclave "B" and send result to enclave "A" */
Release enclave (enclave "B")
/* Run workload in enclave "A" */
Release enclave (enclave "A")

The performance impact of releasing enclave "B" in the above scenario
is amplified when there is a lot of SGX memory and the enclave size
matches the SGX memory. When there is 128GB SGX memory and an enclave
size of 128GB, from the time enclave "B" starts the 128GB SGX memory
is oversubscribed with a combined demand for 256GB from the two
enclaves.

Before commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves") enclave release was done in a tight loop
without giving other tasks a chance to run. Even though the system
experienced soft lockups the workload (run in enclave "A") obtained
good performance numbers because when the workload started running
there was no interference.

Commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves") gave other tasks opportunity to run while an
enclave is released. The impact of this in this scenario is that while
enclave "B" is released and needing to access each page that belongs
to it in order to run the SGX EREMOVE instruction on it, enclave "A"
is attempting to run the workload needing to access the enclave
pages that belong to it. This causes a lot of swapping due to the
demand for the oversubscribed SGX memory. Longer latencies are
experienced by the workload in enclave "A" while enclave "B" is
released.

Improve the performance of enclave release while still avoiding the
soft lockup detector with two enhancements:
- Only call cond_resched() after XA_CHECK_SCHED iterations.
- Use the xarray advanced API to keep the xarray locked for
  XA_CHECK_SCHED iterations instead of locking and unlocking
  at every iteration.

This batching solution is copied from sgx_encl_may_map() that
also iterates through all enclave pages using this technique.

With this enhancement the workload experiences a 5%
performance degradation when compared to a kernel without
commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves"), an improvement to the reported 25%
degradation, while still placating the soft lockup detector.

Scenarios with poor performance are still possible even with these
enhancements. For example, short workloads creating sub processes
while running in large enclaves. Further performance improvements
are pursued in user space through avoiding to create duplicate enclaves
for certain sub processes, and using SGX2 that will do lazy allocation
of pages as needed so enclaves created for sub processes start quickly
and release quickly.

Fixes: 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when releasing large enclaves")
Reported-by: Md Iqbal Hossain &lt;md.iqbal.hossain@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Md Iqbal Hossain &lt;md.iqbal.hossain@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/00efa80dd9e35dc85753e1c5edb0344ac07bb1f0.1667236485.git.reinette.chatre%40intel.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-file_inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2022-10-07T00:22:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-07T00:22:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ab296221579715fb8f36a27c374ebabe5bfb7e9e'/>
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Pull file_inode() updates from Al Vrio:
 "whack-a-mole: cropped up open-coded file_inode() uses..."

* tag 'pull-file_inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  orangefs: use -&gt;f_mapping
  _nfs42_proc_copy(): use -&gt;f_mapping instead of file_inode()-&gt;i_mapping
  dma_buf: no need to bother with file_inode()-&gt;i_mapping
  nfs_finish_open(): don't open-code file_inode()
  bprm_fill_uid(): don't open-code file_inode()
  sgx: use -&gt;f_mapping...
  exfat_iterate(): don't open-code file_inode(file)
  ibmvmc: don't open-code file_inode()
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Pull file_inode() updates from Al Vrio:
 "whack-a-mole: cropped up open-coded file_inode() uses..."

* tag 'pull-file_inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  orangefs: use -&gt;f_mapping
  _nfs42_proc_copy(): use -&gt;f_mapping instead of file_inode()-&gt;i_mapping
  dma_buf: no need to bother with file_inode()-&gt;i_mapping
  nfs_finish_open(): don't open-code file_inode()
  bprm_fill_uid(): don't open-code file_inode()
  sgx: use -&gt;f_mapping...
  exfat_iterate(): don't open-code file_inode(file)
  ibmvmc: don't open-code file_inode()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_sgx_for_v6.1_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-10-04T16:17:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-04T16:17:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ba94a7a90008fd55c7ff1c5b4ca1853e6277dc37'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull x86 SGX update from Borislav Petkov:

 - Improve the documentation of a couple of SGX functions handling
   backing storage

* tag 'x86_sgx_for_v6.1_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/sgx: Improve comments for sgx_encl_lookup/alloc_backing()
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Pull x86 SGX update from Borislav Petkov:

 - Improve the documentation of a couple of SGX functions handling
   backing storage

* tag 'x86_sgx_for_v6.1_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/sgx: Improve comments for sgx_encl_lookup/alloc_backing()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/sgx: Handle VA page allocation failure for EAUG on PF.</title>
<updated>2022-09-08T20:28:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Haitao Huang</name>
<email>haitao.huang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-06T00:02:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=81fa6fd13b5c43601fba8486f2385dbd7c1935e2'/>
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VM_FAULT_NOPAGE is expected behaviour for -EBUSY failure path, when
augmenting a page, as this means that the reclaimer thread has been
triggered, and the intention is just to round-trip in ring-3, and
retry with a new page fault.

Fixes: 5a90d2c3f5ef ("x86/sgx: Support adding of pages to an initialized enclave")
Signed-off-by: Haitao Huang &lt;haitao.huang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vijay Dhanraj &lt;vijay.dhanraj@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906000221.34286-3-jarkko@kernel.org
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VM_FAULT_NOPAGE is expected behaviour for -EBUSY failure path, when
augmenting a page, as this means that the reclaimer thread has been
triggered, and the intention is just to round-trip in ring-3, and
retry with a new page fault.

Fixes: 5a90d2c3f5ef ("x86/sgx: Support adding of pages to an initialized enclave")
Signed-off-by: Haitao Huang &lt;haitao.huang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vijay Dhanraj &lt;vijay.dhanraj@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906000221.34286-3-jarkko@kernel.org
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