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Changelog: Add details about new features for SPR
authorAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:58:36 +0000 (21:58 +0000)
committerAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Mon, 6 Feb 2023 10:22:12 +0000 (10:22 +0000)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
CHANGELOG.md

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@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 
 ## [unstable UNRELEASED](https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=staging) - TBD
 
+### Added
+ - On x86, support for features new in Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs:
+   - PKS (Protection Key Supervisor) available to HVM/PVH guests.
+   - VM-Notify used by Xen to mitigate certain micro-architectural pipeline
+     livelocks, instead of crashing the entire server.
+   - Bus-lock detection, used by Xen to mitigate (by rate-limiting) the system
+     wide impact of a guest misusing atomic instructions.
+
 ## [4.17.0](https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=RELEASE-4.17.0) - 2022-12-12
 
 ### Changed