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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)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:42:41 +0000 (11:42 -0600)
commitd7c268ed4ed35b4b4b4641017cf99f96e6132c9d
tree26dea08d726980257a5996eb5c5f6f5146cf721a
parenta2e1bb4a132fb2c2f2334df4cb5c67fa4d4e7cd2
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre

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>
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