ne_load_enclave_image(9)

✨ ne_load_enclave_image ✨

okay so bestie, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (that's the (9) bit, iykyk 💅) and it's literally all about one little function that does one big job. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, let's go.

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💖 NAME 💖

ne_load_enclave_image — packs the enclave image into the enclave memory. that's it, that's the whole vibe. place the enclave image in the enclave memory, periodt. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ne_load_enclave_image (int enclave_fd , struct ne_user_mem_region
ne_user_mem_regions[] , char *enclave_image_path );

look at her. three args, returns an int, absolute main character energy 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• enclave_fd — the file descriptor that's all tied up with the enclave. your lil handle to the whole situation 🫶
• ne_user_mem_regions — the user space memory regions that got allocated for the enclave. this is where the good stuff lives ✨
• enclave_image_path — the file path pointing at the enclave image. lowkey just "where's the image, bestie" 📁

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🧚 CONTEXT 🧚

Process context. no cap, that's the whole context note — she runs in process context, that's it 💀

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

• 0 on success 🎉 slay, it worked
• a negative return value on failure 😭 not slay, something went wrong

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is long long, but every single one of these is iconic in her own right, so we're listing them all, no skipping, no summarizing, we don't do that here 💜

• Kernel file ./samples/nitro_enclaves/ne_ioctl_sample.c — Sample flow of using the ioctl interface provided by the Nitro Enclaves (NE)(9)
• NE_DEV_NAME(9)
• NE_POLL_WAIT_TIME(9)
• NE_POLL_WAIT_TIME_MS(9)
• NE_SLEEP_TIME(9)
• NE_DEFAULT_NR_VCPUS(9)
• NE_MIN_MEM_REGION_SIZE(9)
• NE_DEFAULT_NR_MEM_REGIONS(9)
• NE_IMAGE_LOAD_HEARTBEAT_CID(9)
• NE_IMAGE_LOAD_HEARTBEAT_PORT(9)
• NE_IMAGE_LOAD_HEARTBEAT_VALUE(9)
• struct ne_user_mem_region(9)
• ne_create_vm(9)
• ne_poll_enclave_fd(9)
• ne_alloc_user_mem_region(9)
• ne_set_user_mem_region(9)
• ne_free_mem_regions(9)
• ne_add_vcpu(9)
• ne_start_enclave(9)
• ne_start_enclave_check_booted(9)

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ngl, the whole enclave journey is a group project — this function is one stop on the tour, so go read the rest of the squad when you're done here 🫶

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and that's the page, bestie 💖 this one came from ./samples/nitro_enclaves, dated October 2026, and she's filed under ne_load_enclave_image(9). go forth and load those images 🦋✨