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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:21:34 +0000 (19:21 +0100)
commite3bf6b3ff55a549cef225bb25724aa7858377c15
tree6331025cb8f13ddcff20c25ebca1015dc32d651f
parent2402432d55576a2c35546c72d19893a21edbf133
x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort

commit a7a248c593e4fd7a67c50b5f5318fe42a0db335e upstream.

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