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kvm-4.17-1

tagged this 09 Apr 12:24
- VHE optimizations
- EL2 address space randomization
- speculative execution mitigations ("variant 3a", aka execution past invalid
privilege register access)
- bugfixes and cleanups

PPC:
- improvements for the radix page fault handler for HV KVM on POWER9

s390:
- more kvm stat counters
- virtio gpu plumbing
- documentation
- facilities improvements

x86:
- support for VMware magic I/O port and pseudo-PMCs
- AMD pause loop exiting
- support for AMD core performance extensions
- support for synchronous register access
- expose nVMX capabilities to userspace
- support for Hyper-V signaling via eventfd
- use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V
- allow userspace to disable MWAIT/HLT/PAUSE vmexits
- usual roundup of optimizations and nested virtualization bugfixes

Generic:
- API selftest infrastructure (though the only tests are for x86 as of now)
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