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authorSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>2021-07-19 19:21:05 +0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2021-09-30 14:50:19 +0200
commitc6c023200045fc9d61574cb157d368707e18efd5 (patch)
treed98ff1a3297c5ea791fa41af95e9e95b23ebc6cc /.gitmodules
parent2f44bea907bb76adc511de5ba733c5164eedbce8 (diff)
hostmem: Add hostmem-epc as a backend for SGX EPC
EPC (Enclave Page Cahe) is a specialized type of memory used by Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions). The SDM desribes EPC as: The Enclave Page Cache (EPC) is the secure storage used to store enclave pages when they are a part of an executing enclave. For an EPC page, hardware performs additional access control checks to restrict access to the page. After the current page access checks and translations are performed, the hardware checks that the EPC page is accessible to the program currently executing. Generally an EPC page is only accessed by the owner of the executing enclave or an instruction which is setting up an EPC page. Because of its unique requirements, Linux manages EPC separately from normal memory. Similar to memfd, the device /dev/sgx_vepc can be opened to obtain a file descriptor which can in turn be used to mmap() EPC memory. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Zhong <yang.zhong@intel.com> Message-Id: <20210719112136.57018-3-yang.zhong@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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