linux/Documentation/x86
Andy Lutomirski b185029f5c x86/speculation/mds: Improve CPU buffer clear documentation
commit 9d8d0294e7 upstream.

On x86_64, all returns to usermode go through
prepare_exit_to_usermode(), with the sole exception of do_nmi().
This even includes machine checks -- this was added several years
ago to support MCE recovery.  Update the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 04dcbdb805 ("x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/999fa9e126ba6a48e9d214d2f18dbde5c62ac55c.1557865329.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-22 07:37:35 +02:00
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i386
x86_64
00-INDEX
amd-memory-encryption.txt
boot.txt
conf.py
earlyprintk.txt
entry_64.txt
exception-tables.txt
index.rst
intel_mpx.txt
intel_rdt_ui.txt
kernel-stacks
mds.rst x86/speculation/mds: Improve CPU buffer clear documentation 2019-05-22 07:37:35 +02:00
microcode.txt
mtrr.txt
orc-unwinder.txt
pat.txt
protection-keys.txt
pti.txt
tlb.txt
topology.txt
usb-legacy-support.txt
zero-page.txt