Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 00/15] Add support for Nitro Enclaves | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:46:39 +0200 |
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On 21/04/20 20:41, Andra Paraschiv wrote: > An enclave communicates with the primary VM via a local communication channel, > using virtio-vsock [2]. An enclave does not have a disk or a network device > attached.
Is it possible to have a sample of this in the samples/ directory?
I am interested especially in:
- the initial CPU state: CPL0 vs. CPL3, initial program counter, etc.
- the communication channel; does the enclave see the usual local APIC and IOAPIC interfaces in order to get interrupts from virtio-vsock, and where is the virtio-vsock device (virtio-mmio I suppose) placed in memory?
- what the enclave is allowed to do: can it change privilege levels, what happens if the enclave performs an access to nonexistent memory, etc.
- whether there are special hypercall interfaces for the enclave
> The proposed solution is following the KVM model and uses the KVM API to be able > to create and set resources for enclaves. An additional ioctl command, besides > the ones provided by KVM, is used to start an enclave and setup the addressing > for the communication channel and an enclave unique id.
Reusing some KVM ioctls is definitely a good idea, but I wouldn't really say it's the KVM API since the VCPU file descriptor is basically non functional (without KVM_RUN and mmap it's not really the KVM API).
Paolo
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