Re: [PATCH v1 00/15] Add support for Nitro Enclaves

Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-23T21:18:25Z

On 23/04/20 22:56, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>> CPL3 is how the user application run, but does the enclave's Linux boot
>> process start in real mode at the reset vector (0xfffffff0), in 16-bit
>> protected mode at the Linux bzImage entry point, or at the ELF entry
>> point?
>
> There is no "entry point" per se. You prepopulate at target bzImage into
> the enclave memory on boot which then follows the standard boot
> protocol. Everything

There's still a "where" missing in that sentence. :) I assume you put
it at 0x10000 (and so the entry point at 0x10200)? That should be
documented because that is absolutely not what the KVM API looks like.

> before that (enclave firmware, etc.) is provided by
> the enclave environment.
>
> Think of it like a mechanism to launch a second QEMU instance on the
> host, but all you can actually control are the -smp, -m, -kernel and
> -initrd parameters.

Are there requirements on how to populate the memory to ensure that the
host firmware doesn't crash and burn? E.g. some free memory right below
4GiB (for the firmware, the LAPIC/IOAPIC or any other special MMIO
devices you have, PCI BARs, and the like)?

> The only I/O channel you have between your VM and
> that new VM is a vsock channel which is configured by the host on your
> behalf.

Is this virtio-mmio or virtio-pci, and what other emulated devices are
there and how do you discover them? Are there any ISA devices
(RTC/PIC/PIT), and are there SMBIOS/RSDP/MP tables in the F segment?

Thanks,

Paolo