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Many AMD CPU Feature Additions Land In Linux 6.13
The in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is bringing a lot of exciting improvements for AMD Linux customers.
A lot continues to be going on around better supporting AMD heterogeneous processors under Linux with a mix of performance "classic" and efficiency "dense" cores. Separately was also the x86/sev pull request of AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) updates for Linux 6.13:- Do the proper memory conversion of guest memory in order to be able to kexec kernels in SNP guests along with other adjustments and cleanups to that effect - Start converting and moving functionality from the sev-guest driver intocore code with the purpose of supporting the secure TSC SNP feature where the hypervisor cannot influence the TSC exposed to the guest anymore - Add a "nosnp" cmdline option in order to be able to disable SNP support in the hypervisor and thus free-up resources which are not going to be used
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