Re: RFC: userspace exception fixups

[Jethro Beekman]

On 2018-11-02 09:52, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 04:37:10PM +0000, Jethro Beekman wrote:
> > On 2018-11-02 09:30, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > ... The intended convention for EENTER is to have an ENCLU at the AEX target ...
> > >
> > > ... to further enforce that the AEX target needs to be ENCLU.
> >
> > Some SGX runtimes may want to use a different AEX target.
>
> To what end?  Userspace gets no indication as to why the AEX occurred.
> And if exceptions are getting transfered to userspace the trampoline
> would effectively be handling only INTR, NMI, #MC and EPC #PF.

Various reasons...

Userspace may have established an exception handling convention with the 
enclave (by setting TCS.NSSA > 1) and may want to call EENTER instead of 
ERESUME.

Userspace may want fine-grained control over enclave scheduling (e.g. 
SGX-Step)

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Jethro Beekman | Fortanix

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