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AMD Posts Linux Patches For New Secure AVIC Guest Feature


AMD engineers today posted the first 'request for comments' patches in enabling support for Secure AVIC guest handling as a new hardware feature with upcoming processors.

AMD engineers today posted the first "request for comments" patches in enabling support for Secure AVIC guest handling as a new hardware feature with upcoming processors. This helps prevent malicious hypervisor from generating unexpected interrupts for a vCPU or otherwise violate architectural assumptions around APIC behavior. Those interested can now find this AMD Secure AVIC guest support under review on the Linux kernel mailing list.

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