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kvm-4.20-1

tagged this 24 Oct 11:05
ARM:
 - Improved guest IPA space support (32 to 52 bits)

 - RAS event delivery for 32bit

 - PMU fixes

 - Guest entry hardening

 - Various cleanups

 - Port of dirty_log_test selftest

PPC:
 - Nested HV KVM support for radix guests on POWER9.  The performance is
   much better than with PR KVM.  Migration and arbitrary level of
   nesting is supported.

 - Disable nested HV-KVM on early POWER9 chips that need a particular hardware
   bug workaround

 - One VM per core mode to prevent potential data leaks

 - PCI pass-through optimization

 - merge ppc-kvm topic branch and kvm-ppc-fixes to get a better base

s390:
 - Initial version of AP crypto virtualization via vfio-mdev

 - Improvement for vfio-ap

 - Set the host program identifier

 - Optimize page table locking

x86:
 - Enable nested virtualization by default

 - Implement Hyper-V IPI hypercalls

 - Improve #PF and #DB handling

 - Allow guests to use Enlightened VMCS

 - Add migration selftests for VMCS and Enlightened VMCS

 - Allow coalesced PIO accesses

 - Add an option to perform nested VMCS host state consistency check
   through hardware

 - Automatic tuning of lapic_timer_advance_ns

 - Many fixes, minor improvements, and cleanups
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