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SubjectRe: encrypted swap - a schema proposal

Hi Yoav:

I am sort of back, sorry for not getting back earlier but there i am sort
of juggling a couple of things right now ;)

Any how, here is a slightly different approach to our problem that may
solve some of these issues:

Maintain a seperate key-pair list seperately with an expiry, say with an
entropy factor determining the hard limit on the number of elements in the
list of the key-pair.

Take a page-based unique id, and map it to the keylist using some type of
bucket hashing scheme.

Add a page to a key's pagelist until a particular upper limit at which
case the key is flagged as retired and only will be used to decrypt any
pending pages, a new key will be added in its place.

A key may also retire after a soft timeout. We can have kswapd or a
sibling run through the list and retire keys in one shot, or during a BH.

Round-robin :-) between keys. The number of keys maintained and the
overhead etc. at a given time can now be significantly tuned by the system
administrator based on the exact resource requirements.

What do you think?

Ahmed.

On Sat, 17 May 2003, Yoav Weiss wrote:

> On Sat, 17 May 2003, Ahmed Masud wrote:
>
> > Hi Yoav:
> >
> > I have read your latest emails (ref, mm_struct and vma_struct), i am
> > just dropping a note to ack them because i won't have a chance to study
> > the points you make in detail over this weekend busy with something else.
> >
> > Cheers and a good weekend to you,
> >
> > Ahmed.
> >
>
> Have a good weekend too. (mine is over now).
>
> When you're back, read Hugh Dickins' message re multiple mm's owning the
> same page in swap. If it really works this way, we may have to assoc the
> keys with an even lower layer, and work harder on the relationship between
> pages and processes.
>
> Yoav
>
>

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