ENCLAVE LIFETIME MANAGEMENT DRIVER FOR NITRO ENCLAVES (NE).(9)

💖 ENCLAVE LIFETIME MANAGEMENT DRIVER FOR NITRO ENCLAVES (NE) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section (9) — the page is literally titled Enclave lifetime management driver for Nitro Enclaves (NE) and no, I did not make that name up, it's right there. 💅

real talk though, in the running header and footer the title gets squeezed down to Enclave lif...claves (NE).(9) because apparently even man pages have a word count era. 😭 so if you see that truncated little gremlin up top or down at the bottom, that's just this page. same energy, same page, just wearing a crop top.

🦋 THE ACTUAL TEA 🦋

Nitro is a hypervisor that has been developed by Amazon. that's it, that's the lore drop. no cap, that's the whole description — the page is short and it knows it. 🫶

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

before we get into the links, the page points at the kernel file

./drivers/virt/nitro_enclaves/ne_misc_dev.c

like, that's the source bestie, that's where the whole thing lives. go touch grass in that file sometime. 🌸

and now the full friend group, in order, no one left behind, every single (9) intact because we do not abbreviate in this house 👑

• NE_CPUS_SIZE(9) — the cpus-size one, slay
• NE_EIF_LOAD_OFFSET(9) — the EIF load offset one
• NE_MIN_ENCLAVE_MEM_SIZE(9) — the minimum enclave mem size one
• NE_MIN_MEM_REGION_SIZE(9) — the minimum mem region size one
• NE_PARENT_VM_CID(9) — the parent VM CID one
• struct ne_cpu_pool(9) — struct, cpu pool, iconic
• struct ne_phys_contig_mem_regions(9) — struct, phys contig mem regions, also iconic
• ne_check_enclaves_created(9) — the checking-if-enclaves-created one
• ne_setup_cpu_pool(9) — setting up the cpu pool
• ne_teardown_cpu_pool(9) — tearing down the cpu pool, the sad sequel 💀
• ne_set_kernel_param(9) — set that kernel param
• ne_donated_cpu(9) — the donated cpu one 🎀
• ne_get_unused_core_from_cpu_pool(9) — grabbing an unused core out the cpu pool
• ne_set_enclave_threads_per_core(9) — set the enclave threads per core
• ne_get_cpu_from_cpu_pool(9) — get a cpu from the cpu pool
• ne_get_vcpu_core_from_cpu_pool(9) — get the vcpu core from the cpu pool, the more specific queen
• ne_check_cpu_in_cpu_pool(9) — vibe check: is this cpu in the cpu pool
• ne_add_vcpu_ioctl(9) — the add vcpu ioctl
• ne_sanity_check_user_mem_region(9) — sanity check the user mem region
• ne_sanity_check_user_mem_region_page(9) — sanity check the user mem region page, one level deeper 🧚
• ne_sanity_check_phys_mem_region(9) — sanity check the phys mem region
• ne_merge_phys_contig_memory_regions(9) — merge those phys contig memory regions
• ne_set_user_memory_region_ioctl(9) — the set user memory region ioctl
• ne_start_enclave_ioctl(9) — start the enclave, main character energy 🔥
• ne_enclave_ioctl(9) — the enclave ioctl
• ne_enclave_remove_all_mem_region_entries(9) — remove all mem region entries
• ne_enclave_remove_all_vcpu_id_entries(9) — remove all vcpu id entries
• ne_pci_dev_remove_enclave_entry(9) — pci dev remove enclave entry
• ne_enclave_release(9) — release the enclave 🦋
• ne_enclave_poll(9) — poll the enclave
• ne_create_vm_ioctl(9) — create that vm ioctl
• ne_ioctl(9) — and the plain ne_ioctl(9) finale, periodt 💅

okay that's genuinely the whole page. it's a stub, it's cute, it's giving "index card taped to the fridge." go read the SEE ALSOs, they're where the actual content lives. 🌈

and that's a wrap, bestie — this page lives in ./drivers/virt/nitro_enclaves, and it's dated October 2026 ⭐ so yes, it's from the future, and yes, it still only has a two-line description. obsessed. 💜