Re: [PATCH v6] Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre

On 6/20/19 4:10 PM, Tim Chen wrote:

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: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

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Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst | 697 ++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst | 2 + 3 files changed, 700 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org

Thanks.