hyperlight-dev / hyperlight-dev/hyperlight
Add architecture-independent exception handling APIs sufficient for hyperlight-wasm
- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
Currently, hyperlight-guest exposes an architecture-specific way of overriding certain raw exception handler on x86-64 that is used by hyperlight-wasm. Really, we should instead have architecture-independent hooks for
- Intercepting certain kinds of misbehaviour-indicating exceptions (e.g. FP divide by zero, access to guard regions)
- Support for the virtual memory primitives that hyperlight-wasm needs in hyperlight-guest (e.g. zero-on-first-read regions, copy-on-write images, guard regions)
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by inspecting the architecture-specific raw exception handler in hyperlight-guest and how hyperlight-wasm uses it. Then trace the virtual memory primitives required by hyperlight-wasm, including zero-on-first-read regions, copy-on-write images, and guard regions. Done means hyperlight-guest exposes architecture-independent hooks and primitives covering these requirements.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100