Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:23:26 +0000 (16:23 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:12:56 +0000 (18:12 +0200)
commita20c88c2a346dd90ce244f73647cd6bd8e1cacb3
tree1d0ceec52b8dbd80c3d458a08cb558e5e9d7c7e4
parentfc083988b6aa43fe3210792011647c1c1124ab5e
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities

commit 3ec8ce5d866ec6a08a9cfab82b62acf4a830b35f upstream

Add documentation for the L1TF vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms:

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

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.287429944@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst [new file with mode: 0644]