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nitro_enclaves: Update documentation for Arm64 support

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Add references for hugepages and booting steps for Arm64.

Include info about the current supported architectures for the
NE kernel driver.

Reviewed-by: George-Aurelian Popescu <popegeo@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andra Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210827154930.40608-3-andraprs@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Andra Paraschiv 2021-08-27 18:49:25 +03:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@ -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