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>
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:43:33 +0000 (01:43 +0000)
commitf1278feafb4e883fae350b450cb811c54981450c
tree8e1d4cfaa0e7afcc9d196fcea62555dcf1ce5f28
parent3300880f800da048ff393c01e7cc3bdf57af5e93
x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort

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>
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/x86/taa
Gbp-Pq: Name 0008-x86-speculation-taa-Add-documentation-for-TSX-Async-.patch
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/x86/index.rst
Documentation/x86/tsx_async_abort.rst [new file with mode: 0644]