Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 02/15] nitro_enclaves: Define the PCI device interface | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:22:39 +0200 |
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On 21/04/20 20:41, Andra Paraschiv wrote: > The Nitro Enclaves (NE) driver communicates with a new PCI device, that > is exposed to a virtual machine (VM) and handles commands meant for > handling enclaves lifetime e.g. creation, termination, setting memory > regions. The communication with the PCI device is handled using a MMIO > space and MSI-X interrupts. > > This device communicates with the hypervisor on the host, where the VM > that spawned the enclave itself run, e.g. to launch a VM that is used > for the enclave. > > Define the MMIO space of the PCI device, the commands that are > provided by this device. Add an internal data structure used as private > data for the PCI device driver and the functions for the PCI device init > / uninit and command requests handling. > > Signed-off-by: Alexandru-Catalin Vasile <lexnv@amazon.com> > Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ciobotaru <alcioa@amazon.com> > Signed-off-by: Andra Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com> > --- > .../virt/amazon/nitro_enclaves/ne_pci_dev.h | 266 ++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 266 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 drivers/virt/amazon/nitro_enclaves/ne_pci_dev.h
Can this be placed just in drivers/virt/nitro_enclaves, or drivers/virt/enclave/nitro? It's not unlikely that this device be implemented outside EC2 sooner or later, and there's nothing Amazon-specific as far as I can see from the UAPI.
Paolo
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