On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:44:44 -0800 Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com wrote:
Andi and I have made an update to our draft of the Spectre admin guide. We may be out on Christmas vacation for a while. But we want to send it out for everyone to take a look.
Thanks.
Tim
From: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com
There are no document in admin guides describing Spectre v1 and v2 side channels and their mitigations in Linux.
Create a document to describe Spectre and the mitigation methods used in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Documentation/admin-guide/spectre.rst | 502 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 502 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/spectre.rst
I only saw this now, seems I wasn't copied... I'll take a deeper look, but I have a couple of meta comments:
- This could arguably go in the security book rather than the admin guide. I don't really have a strong opinion on which is right at the moment, but others might.
- Wherever it ends up, can you also please add it to the appropriate index.rst file so it actually gets built with the rest of the docs?
Thanks,
jon