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>
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- Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst 1 addition, 0 deletionsDocumentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst
- Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst 697 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst
- Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst 2 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst
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