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Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:23:26 +0000 (16:23 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:29:56 +0000 (16:29 +0200)
commit3ec8ce5d866ec6a08a9cfab82b62acf4a830b35f
treea08562fd4780f19de9142e338c44bd0b435c3484
parentd90a7a0ec83fb86622cd7dae23255d3c50a99ec8
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities

Add documentation for the L1TF vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms:

  - Explain the problem and risks
  - Document the mitigation mechanisms
  - Document the command line controls
  - Document the sysfs files

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.287429944@linutronix.de
Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst [new file with mode: 0644]