Glossary

PAL

Platform Adaptation Layer

PAL is the layer of Graphene that implements a narrow Drawbridge-like ABI interface (with function names starting with the Dk prefix)

See also

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/asplos2011-drawbridge.pdf

Whenever Graphene requires a service from the host platform (memory allocation, thread management and synchronization, file system and network stacks, etc.), it calls the corresponding PAL functionality. The PAL ABI is host-platform agnostic and is backed by the host-platform specific PAL, for example, the Linux-SGX PAL.

SGX

Software Guard Extensions is a set of instructions on Intel processors for creating Trusted Execution Environments (TEE). See Introduction to SGX.

Thread Control Block

Todo

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