Re: [PATCH v4 22/33] hostmem-epc: Add the reset interface for EPC backend reset

[Sean Christopherson]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 19/07/21 13:21, Yang Zhong wrote:
> > +void sgx_memory_backend_reset(HostMemoryBackend *backend, int fd,
> > +                              Error **errp)
> > +{
> > +    MemoryRegion *mr = &backend->mr;
> > +
> > +    mr->enabled = false;
> > +
> > +    /* destroy the old memory region if it exist */
> > +    if (fd > 0 && mr->destructor) {
> > +        mr->destructor(mr);
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    sgx_epc_backend_memory_alloc(backend, errp);
> > +}
> > +
> 
> Jarkko, Sean, Kai,
> 
> this I think is problematic because it has a race window while /dev/sgx_vepc
> is closed and then reopened.  First, the vEPC space could be exhausted by
> somebody doing another mmap in the meanwhile.  Second, somebody might (for
> whatever reason) remove /dev/sgx_vepc while QEMU runs.

Yep, both error cases are possible.

> Yang explained to me (offlist) that this is needed because Windows fails to
> reboot without it.  We would need a way to ask Linux to reinitialize the
> vEPC, that doesn't involve munmap/mmap; this could be for example
> fallocate(FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE).
> 
> What do you all think?

Mechanically, FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE could work, but it's definitely a stretch of
the semantics as the underlying memory would not actually be zeroed.

The only other option that comes to mind is a dedicated ioctl().