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 08:38:57 +0000 (09:38 +0100)
commit4e6c2af2ba93ee8709695835920fc57148e4b397
treec583c16d86e459f5576426c7c52b7363255b6609
parentd598347989aa8873cebfd7d7b4d29d7aba21b878
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]