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Subject[PATCH v1 2/3] nitro_enclaves: Update documentation for Arm support
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Add references for hugepages and booting steps for Arm.

Signed-off-by: Andra Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com>
---
Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst b/Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst
index 39b0c8fe2654a..2777da1fb0ad1 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ for the enclave VM. An enclave does not have persistent storage attached.
The memory regions carved out of the primary VM and given to an enclave need to
be aligned 2 MiB / 1 GiB physically contiguous memory regions (or multiple of
this size e.g. 8 MiB). The memory can be allocated e.g. by using hugetlbfs from
-user space [2][3]. The memory size for an enclave needs to be at least 64 MiB.
-The enclave memory and CPUs need to be from the same NUMA node.
+user space [2][3][7]. The memory size for an enclave needs to be at least
+64 MiB. The enclave memory and CPUs need to be from the same NUMA node.

An enclave runs on dedicated cores. CPU 0 and its CPU siblings need to remain
available for the primary VM. A CPU pool has to be set for NE purposes by an
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ device is placed in memory below the typical 4 GiB.
The application that runs in the enclave needs to be packaged in an enclave
image together with the OS ( e.g. kernel, ramdisk, init ) that will run in the
enclave VM. The enclave VM has its own kernel and follows the standard Linux
-boot protocol [6].
+boot protocol [6][8].

The kernel bzImage, the kernel command line, the ramdisk(s) are part of the
Enclave Image Format (EIF); plus an EIF header including metadata such as magic
@@ -93,3 +93,5 @@ enclave process can exit.
[4] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html
[5] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/vsock.7.html
[6] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/x86/boot.html
+[7] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/arm64/hugetlbpage.html
+[8] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/arm64/booting.html
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