[libvirt] [PATCH RESEND 4/4] NEWS: Document notify VM exit feature

Lin Ma lma at suse.de
Mon Jul 3 06:30:31 UTC 2023


Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <lma at suse.de>
---
 NEWS.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 5c28a0579d..4d2b43cbd7 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ v9.5.0 (unreleased)
     image on discard requests. Disabling cluster unrefing decreases fragmentation
     of the image.
 
+  * Introduce notify vmexit feature(x86 only)
+
+    To mitigate the threat that CPU stuck caused by malicious VMs, A VMM can
+    enable notification VM exits to occur if no interrupt windows occur in
+    VMX non-root operation for a specified amount of time (notify window).
+    Libvirt is now able to configure this feature by setting the notify-vmexit
+    for KVM domains.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
   * qemu: Include maximum physical address size in baseline CPU
-- 
2.41.0



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