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x86/Documentation: Add PTI description
authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:44:36 +0000 (09:44 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 08:35:32 +0000 (09:35 +0100)
commitd013f41d0cc509513beb61bea7e5aebfef8521f7
tree593942826450ca3c0ec2546ab786cbd4bb39bd2b
parentcf9f240627b4b732c9aedfcdcf54ffcdcda911ad
x86/Documentation: Add PTI description

commit 01c9b17bf673b05bb401b76ec763e9730ccf1376 upstream.

Add some details about how PTI works, what some of the downsides
are, and how to debug it when things go wrong.

Also document the kernel parameter: 'pti/nopti'.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Moritz Lipp <moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at>
Cc: Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at>
Cc: Michael Schwarz <michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at>
Cc: Richard Fellner <richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andi Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180105174436.1BC6FA2B@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/x86/pti.txt [new file with mode: 0644]