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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2018-01-07 22:48:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2018-01-08 11:10:33 +0100 |
| commit | 87590ce6e373d1a5401f6539f0c59ef92dd924a9 (patch) | |
| tree | b3d5c8ca8fe62571842c3461956da2183957a61c /Documentation | |
| parent | 99c6fa2511d8a683e61468be91b83f85452115fa (diff) | |
sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder
As the meltdown/spectre problem affects several CPU architectures, it makes
sense to have common way to express whether a system is affected by a
particular vulnerability or not. If affected the way to express the
mitigation should be common as well.
Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for
meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2.
Allow architectures to override the show function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107214913.096657732@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index f3d5817c4ef0..bd3a88e16d8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -373,3 +373,19 @@ Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Description: information about CPUs heterogeneity. cpu_capacity: capacity of cpu#. + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities + /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown + /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1 + /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2 +Date: Januar 2018 +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> +Description: Information about CPU vulnerabilities + + The files are named after the code names of CPU + vulnerabilities. The output of those files reflects the + state of the CPUs in the system. Possible output values: + + "Not affected" CPU is not affected by the vulnerability + "Vulnerable" CPU is affected and no mitigation in effect + "Mitigation: $M" CPU is affetcted and mitigation $M is in effect |