Commit 6e885594 authored by Tim Chen's avatar Tim Chen Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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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: 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>
parent 163ede97
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@@ -9,5 +9,6 @@ are configurable at compile, boot or run time.
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   spectre
   l1tf
   mds
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@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ If PR_SPEC_PRCTL is set, then the per-task control of the mitigation is
available. If not set, prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL) for the speculation
misfeature will fail.

.. _set_spec_ctrl:

PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL
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