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Author SHA1 Message Date
Paolo Bonzini 5b76a3cff0 KVM: VMX: Tell the nested hypervisor to skip L1D flush on vmentry
When nested virtualization is in use, VMENTER operations from the nested
hypervisor into the nested guest will always be processed by the bare metal
hypervisor, and KVM's "conditional cache flushes" mode in particular does a
flush on nested vmentry.  Therefore, include the "skip L1D flush on
vmentry" bit in KVM's suggested ARCH_CAPABILITIES setting.

Add the relevant Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2018-08-05 17:10:20 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 5833113613 Documentation/l1tf: Remove Yonah processors from not vulnerable list
Dave reported, that it's not confirmed that Yonah processors are
unaffected. Remove them from the list.

Reported-by: ave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2018-08-05 17:10:18 +02:00
Tony Luck 1949f9f497 Documentation/l1tf: Fix typos
Fix spelling and other typos

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2018-07-20 00:39:26 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 3ec8ce5d86 Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities
Add documentation for the L1TF vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms:

  - Explain the problem and risks
  - Document the mitigation mechanisms
  - Document the command line controls
  - Document the sysfs files

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.287429944@linutronix.de
2018-07-13 16:29:56 +02:00