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Commit 8a815007 authored by Tim Chen's avatar Tim Chen Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarTim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent bd960402
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@@ -9,5 +9,6 @@ are configurable at compile, boot or run time.
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   spectre
   l1tf
   mds