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Background ========== SGX enclave memory is enumerated by the processor in contiguous physical ranges called Enclave Page Cache (EPC) sections. Currently, there is a free list per section, but allocations simply target the lowest-numbered sections. This is functional, but has no NUMA awareness. Fortunately, EPC sections are covered by entries in the ACPI SRAT table. These entries allow each EPC section to be associated with a NUMA node, just like normal RAM. Solution ======== Implement a NUMA-aware enclave page allocator. Mirror the buddy allocator and maintain a list of enclave pages for each NUMA node. Attempt to allocate enclave memory first from local nodes, then fall back to other nodes. Note that the fallback is not as sophisticated as the buddy allocator and is itself not aware of NUMA distances. When a node's free list is empty, it searches for the next-highest node with enclave pages (and will wrap if necessary). This could be improved in the future. Other ===== NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO dependency is required for phys_to_target_node(). [ Kai Huang: Do not return NULL from __sgx_alloc_epc_page() because callers do not expect that and that leads to a NULL ptr deref. ] [ dhansen: Fix an uninitialized 'nid' variable in __sgx_alloc_epc_page() as Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> to avoid any potential allocations from the wrong NUMA node or even premature allocation failures. ] Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/158188326978.894464.217282995221175417.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210319040602.178558-1-kai.huang@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210318214933.29341-1-dave.hansen@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210317235332.362001-2-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.