x86/sgx: Report RCU-Tasks quiescent state in EPC sanitization loop

When the kernel boots from kexec, the EPC pages may have a stale state.
The kernel sanitizes all EPC pages to reset them to a clean state before
their first use in any enclave.  The EPC size could be several GBs and
resetting them could take a significant amount of time.  Because of that,
the kernel performs the reset in a loop through a kernel thread ksgxd() at
early boot, and there's a cond_resched() after resetting each EPC page.

This is fine in most cases, but becomes a problem when there's other kernel
code waiting for an RCU-Tasks grace period but the cond_resched() in
ksgxd() never triggers rescheduling.  Because cond_resched() doesn't report
a quiescent state when it doesn't trigger rescheduling, the thread that is
waiting for an RCU-Tasks grace period will wait until all EPC pages are
reset.

For instance, BPF LSM subsystem can invoke synchronize_rcu_tasks() at
kernel boot time.  A VM with a large EPC assigned and BPF LSM enabled can
take a long time to boot, with a call trace triggered:

    rcu_tasks_wait_gp: rcu_tasks grace period number 1 (since boot) is
	130631 jiffies old.
    INFO: task systemd:1 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
    ...
    task:systemd  state:D stack:0  pid:1  tpid:1  ppid:0  flags:0x00000002
    Call Trace:
    ...
    schedule_timeout+0x157/0x170
    wait_for_completion+0x88/0x150
    __wait_rcu_gp+0x17e/0x190
    synchronize_rcu_tasks_generic+0x64/0x60
    ...
    synchronize_rcu_tasks+0x15/0x20
    register_ftrace_direct+0x31f/0x350
    ...
    bpf_trampoline_link_prog+0x33/0x60
    bpf_tracing_prog_attach+0x3c5/0x5f0

Replace cond_resched() with cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() which explicitly
reports quiescent state regardless of whether actual rescheduling is
triggered.  Resetting all EPC pages in ksgxd() isn't performance critical
so the extra cost of cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() isn't a problem.

Tests showed this reduced the VM kernel boot time from ~50s to ~700ms.

Co-developed-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Fixes: e7e0545299d8 ("x86/sgx: Initialize metadata for Enclave Page Cache (EPC) sections")
Suggested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun Miao <jun.miao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Challvy Tee <challvy.tee@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/40423
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260902013653.690506-1-jun.miao@intel.com

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
index 4505f808af5e..a5f2aabb2da1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
@@ -106,7 +106,13 @@ static unsigned long __sgx_sanitize_pages(struct list_head *dirty_page_list)
 			left_dirty++;
 		}
 
-		cond_resched();
+		/*
+		 * cond_resched() only schedules when TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set.
+		 * During this boot-time loop that condition may not happen for a
+		 * long time, so report an RCU-Tasks quiescent state explicitly.
+		 * Therefore, change cond_resched() to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs().
+		 */
+		cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs();
 	}
 
 	list_splice(&dirty, dirty_page_list);