x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:32:55 +0000 (12:32 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 07:37:00 +0000 (08:37 +0100)
commita7a248c593e4fd7a67c50b5f5318fe42a0db335e
tree7189814c8fa8f037a73a72e5b8dfd11b9f4ad5f2
parent7531a3596e3272d1f6841e0d601a614555dc6b65
x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort

Add the documenation for TSX Async Abort. Include the description of
the issue, how to check the mitigation state, control the mitigation,
guidance for system administrators.

 [ bp: Add proper SPDX tags, touch ups by Josh and me. ]

Co-developed-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/x86/index.rst
Documentation/x86/tsx_async_abort.rst [new file with mode: 0644]