Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
authorTim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 20 Jun 2019 23:10:50 +0000 (16:10 -0700)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:42:41 +0000 (11:42 -0600)
commit6e88559470f581741bcd0f2794f9054814ac9740
tree26dea08d726980257a5996eb5c5f6f5146cf721a
parent163ede97a9a29604c3a8afbf22ae0599f5148621
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre

Add documentation for Spectre vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms:

- Explain the problem and risks
- Document the mitigation mechanisms
- Document the command line controls
- Document the sysfs files

Co-developed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst