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x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:32:55 +0000 (12:32 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:56:50 +0000 (00:56 +0000)
commit0cdefbadb02aafd93efd4a9b118a6d07bfc742da
treeeebbd6ade175a99399288dd563e7628683837998
parent366507333e0b8f83009fabea746ff0ad6d7c7641
x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort

commit a7a248c593e4fd7a67c50b5f5318fe42a0db335e upstream.

Add the documenation for TSX Async Abort. Include the description of
the issue, how to check the mitigation state, control the mitigation,
guidance for system administrators.

 [ bp: Add proper SPDX tags, touch ups by Josh and me. ]

Co-developed-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 4.4:
 - Drop changes to ReST index files
 - Drop "nosmt" documentation
 - Adjust filenames, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
Documentation/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/x86/tsx_async_abort.rst [new file with mode: 0644]