x86/Documentation: Add PTI description
authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:44:36 +0000 (09:44 -0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Sat, 6 Jan 2018 20:39:10 +0000 (21:39 +0100)
commit01c9b17bf673b05bb401b76ec763e9730ccf1376
treee44529cd44bf30899a3182ca874099d0b8c20655
parentde53c3786a3ce162a1c815d0c04c766c23ec9c0a
x86/Documentation: Add PTI description

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
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/x86/pti.txt [new file with mode: 0644]