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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-11-04 16:21:47 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-11-04 16:21:47 +0100 |
commit | 5c904c66ed4e86c31ac7c033b64274cebed04e0e (patch) | |
tree | 769d366c5e61ffa45d5d8a99c61ae9d5ea39a0a0 /Documentation/virt | |
parent | Merge tag 'staging-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git... (diff) | |
parent | comedi: dt9812: fix DMA buffers on stack (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'char-misc-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char and misc and other tiny driver subsystem
updates for 5.16-rc1.
Loads of things in here, all of which have been in linux-next for a
while with no reported problems (except for one called out below.)
Included are:
- habanana labs driver updates, including dma_buf usage, reviewed and
acked by the dma_buf maintainers
- iio driver update (going through this tree not staging as they
really do not belong going through that tree anymore)
- counter driver updates
- hwmon driver updates that the counter drivers needed, acked by the
hwmon maintainer
- xillybus driver updates
- binder driver updates
- extcon driver updates
- dma_buf module namespaces added (will cause a build error in arm64
for allmodconfig, but that change is on its way through the drm
tree)
- lkdtm driver updates
- pvpanic driver updates
- phy driver updates
- virt acrn and nitr_enclaves driver updates
- smaller char and misc driver updates"
* tag 'char-misc-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (386 commits)
comedi: dt9812: fix DMA buffers on stack
comedi: ni_usb6501: fix NULL-deref in command paths
arm64: errata: Enable TRBE workaround for write to out-of-range address
arm64: errata: Enable workaround for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode
coresight: trbe: Work around write to out of range
coresight: trbe: Make sure we have enough space
coresight: trbe: Add a helper to determine the minimum buffer size
coresight: trbe: Workaround TRBE errata overwrite in FILL mode
coresight: trbe: Add infrastructure for Errata handling
coresight: trbe: Allow driver to choose a different alignment
coresight: trbe: Decouple buffer base from the hardware base
coresight: trbe: Add a helper to pad a given buffer area
coresight: trbe: Add a helper to calculate the trace generated
coresight: trbe: Defer the probe on offline CPUs
coresight: trbe: Fix incorrect access of the sink specific data
coresight: etm4x: Add ETM PID for Kryo-5XX
coresight: trbe: Prohibit trace before disabling TRBE
coresight: trbe: End the AUX handle on truncation
coresight: trbe: Do not truncate buffer on IRQ
coresight: trbe: Fix handling of spurious interrupts
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst | 21 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst b/Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst index 39b0c8fe2654..74c2f5919c88 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst @@ -14,12 +14,15 @@ instances [1]. For example, an application that processes sensitive data and runs in a VM, can be separated from other applications running in the same VM. This application then runs in a separate VM than the primary VM, namely an enclave. +It runs alongside the VM that spawned it. This setup matches low latency +applications needs. -An enclave runs alongside the VM that spawned it. This setup matches low latency -applications needs. The resources that are allocated for the enclave, such as -memory and CPUs, are carved out of the primary VM. Each enclave is mapped to a -process running in the primary VM, that communicates with the NE driver via an -ioctl interface. +The current supported architectures for the NE kernel driver, available in the +upstream Linux kernel, are x86 and ARM64. + +The resources that are allocated for the enclave, such as memory and CPUs, are +carved out of the primary VM. Each enclave is mapped to a process running in the +primary VM, that communicates with the NE kernel driver via an ioctl interface. In this sense, there are two components: @@ -43,8 +46,8 @@ 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 +64,7 @@ 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 +96,5 @@ 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 |