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, 21 Jul 2019 07:04:31 +0000 (09:04 +0200)
commitd30cb648f3ec77ca5f773a9b74d565cca1561aa1
tree764bc2ce2febe5b493bbcc99143afb5a6b9a35eb
parent30a9b8b4b767c8d4d05c999d7bd1e502fc4df06a
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