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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2018-01-07 22:48:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-01-17 09:38:57 +0100 |
| commit | 11ec2df9c02071a7c0a63a1febb53e76cdee56ac (patch) | |
| tree | 4c64fbdd6f80047aa6ca14daedaf4625bee59b71 /Documentation | |
| parent | 56eff367e071981bed4a75428993ad896baa69eb (diff) | |
sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder
commit 87590ce6e373d1a5401f6539f0c59ef92dd924a9 upstream.
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
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 498741737055..8b30a48b4c5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -350,3 +350,19 @@ Contact: Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org> Description: AArch64 CPU registers 'identification' directory exposes the CPU ID registers for identifying model and revision of the 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 |