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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 16 Nov 2019 09:27:51 +0000 (10:27 +0100)
commitd4ce17c877b104cec728b80f66d880d3dc0d5a59
tree93bd48b7f7fce0ad7c9a6260455d8777d734e33c
parentf6eabafe0fa2a007219af36340414f961bedde9d
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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]