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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 14 Jul 2019 06:11:17 +0000 (08:11 +0200)
commit8a815007f5fe292fa8ef082663e1259b9ae0571b
tree4fa3e0db1942053a8d8ddd448b7236337d10bf6e
parentbd9604022eb36742cca4feb02e7d3d50a49f0993
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre

commit 6e88559470f581741bcd0f2794f9054814ac9740 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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