Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:34:37 -0700 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation: Add document to describe Spectre and its mitigations |
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:44:44 -0800 Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Andi and I have made an update to our draft of the Spectre admin guide. > We may be out on Christmas vacation for a while. But we want to > send it out for everyone to take a look. > > Thanks. > > Tim > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > There are no document in admin guides describing > Spectre v1 and v2 side channels and their mitigations > in Linux. > > Create a document to describe Spectre and the mitigation > methods used in the kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> > --- > Documentation/admin-guide/spectre.rst | 502 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 502 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/spectre.rst
I only saw this now, seems I wasn't copied... I'll take a deeper look, but I have a couple of meta comments:
- This could arguably go in the security book rather than the admin guide. I don't really have a strong opinion on which is right at the moment, but others might.
- Wherever it ends up, can you also please add it to the appropriate index.rst file so it actually gets built with the rest of the docs?
Thanks,
jon
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