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Documentation: add Linux x86 docs to Sphinx TOC tree Add a index.rst for x86 support. More docs will be added later. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:15 +00:00
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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x86-specific Documentation
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Documentation: x86: convert boot.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:16 +00:00
boot
dt: Remove booting-without-of.rst booting-without-of.rst is an ancient document that first outlined Flattened DeviceTree on PowerPC initially. The DT world has evolved a lot in the 15 years since and booting-without-of.rst is pretty stale. The name of the document itself is confusing if you don't understand the evolution from real 'OpenFirmware'. Most of what booting-without-of.rst contains is now in the DT specification (which evolved out of the ePAPR). The few things that weren't documented in the DT specification are now. All that remains is the boot entry details, so let's move these to arch specific documents. The exception is arm which already has the same details documented. Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc) Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2020-10-08 14:24:20 +00:00
booting-dt
Documentation/x86: Add documentation for /proc/cpuinfo feature flags /proc/cpuinfo shows features which the kernel supports. Some of these flags are derived from CPUID, and others are derived from other sources, including some that are entirely software-based. Currently, there is not any documentation in the kernel about how /proc/cpuinfo flags are generated and what it means when they are missing. Add documentation for /proc/cpuinfo feature flags enumeration. Document how and when x86 feature flags are used. Also discuss what their presence or absence mean for the kernel and users. Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kyung Min Park <kyung.min.park@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200831183500.15481-1-kyung.min.park@intel.com
2020-08-31 18:35:00 +00:00
cpuinfo
Documentation: x86: convert topology.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:17 +00:00
topology
Documentation: x86: convert exception-tables.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:18 +00:00
exception-tables
Documentation: x86: convert kernel-stacks to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:19 +00:00
kernel-stacks
Documentation: x86: convert entry_64.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:20 +00:00
entry_64
Documentation: x86: convert earlyprintk.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:21 +00:00
earlyprintk
Documentation: x86: convert orc-unwinder.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:32 +00:00
orc-unwinder
Documentation: x86: convert zero-page.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:22 +00:00
zero-page
Documentation: x86: convert tlb.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:23 +00:00
tlb
Documentation: x86: convert mtrr.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:24 +00:00
mtrr
Documentation: x86: convert pat.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:25 +00:00
pat
x86/Documentation: Describe the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface Start a documentation file to describe the purpose and operation of Intel's Hardware Feedback Interface. Describe how this interface is used in Linux to relay performance and energy efficiency updates to userspace. Reviewed-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Suggested-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2022-01-27 19:34:48 +00:00
intel-hfi
Documentation: x86: rework IOMMU documentation Add preliminary documentation for AMD IOMMU and combine with the existing Intel IOMMU documentation and clean up and modernize some of the existing documentation to align with the current state of the kernel. Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220422192656.624920-1-alexander.deucher@amd.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-04-22 19:26:56 +00:00
iommu
docs: x86: move two x86-specific files to x86 arch dir Those two docs belong to the x86 architecture: Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt -> Documentation/x86/intel-iommu.rst Documentation/intel_txt.txt -> Documentation/x86/intel_txt.rst Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-04-20 12:20:52 +00:00
intel_txt
Documentation: x86: convert amd-memory-encryption.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:28 +00:00
amd-memory-encryption
Documentation: Add x86/amd_hsmp driver This documentation for amd_hsmp driver explains how to use the device interface. Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@amd.com> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220222050501.18789-2-nchatrad@amd.com Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2022-02-22 05:05:01 +00:00
amd_hsmp
Documentation/x86: Document TDX kernel architecture Document the TDX guest architecture details like #VE support, shared memory, etc. [ dhansen: made some wording changes, including removing all the plural "#VE's" and "#VEs". ] Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220405232939.73860-31-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
2022-04-05 23:29:39 +00:00
tdx
Documentation: x86: convert pti.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:29 +00:00
pti
x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers() The Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulernabilities are mitigated by clearing the affected CPU buffers. The mechanism for clearing the buffers uses the unused and obsolete VERW instruction in combination with a microcode update which triggers a CPU buffer clear when VERW is executed. Provide a inline function with the assembly magic. The argument of the VERW instruction must be a memory operand as documented: "MD_CLEAR enumerates that the memory-operand variant of VERW (for example, VERW m16) has been extended to also overwrite buffers affected by MDS. This buffer overwriting functionality is not guaranteed for the register operand variant of VERW." Documentation also recommends to use a writable data segment selector: "The buffer overwriting occurs regardless of the result of the VERW permission check, as well as when the selector is null or causes a descriptor load segment violation. However, for lowest latency we recommend using a selector that indicates a valid writable data segment." Add x86 specific documentation about MDS and the internal workings of the mitigation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-02-18 22:13:06 +00:00
mds
Documentation: x86: convert microcode.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:30 +00:00
microcode
Documentation/x86: Rename resctrl_ui.rst and add two errata to the file Intel Memory Bandwidth Monitoring (MBM) counters may report system memory bandwidth incorrectly on some Intel processors. This is reported in documented in erratum SKX99, erratum BDF102 and in the RDT reference manual, see Documentation/x86/index.rst. To work around the errata, MBM total and local readings are corrected using a correction factor table. Since the correction factor table is not publicly documented anywhere, document the table and the errata in Documentation/x86/resctrl.rst for future reference. [ bp: Move web links to the doc, massage. ] Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201014004927.1839452-2-fenghua.yu@intel.com
2020-10-14 00:49:26 +00:00
resctrl
x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort Add the documenation for TSX Async Abort. Include the description of the issue, how to check the mitigation state, control the mitigation, guidance for system administrators. [ bp: Add proper SPDX tags, touch ups by Josh and me. ] Co-developed-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2019-10-23 10:32:55 +00:00
tsx_async_abort
Documentation/x86: Add buslock.rst Add buslock.rst to explain bus lock problem and how to detect and handle it. [ tglx: Included it into index.rst and added the missing include ... ] Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210419214958.4035512-2-fenghua.yu@intel.com
2021-04-19 21:49:55 +00:00
buslock
Documentation: x86: convert usb-legacy-support.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:33 +00:00
usb-legacy-support
Documentation: x86: convert i386/IO-APIC.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:34 +00:00
i386/index
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/boot-options.txt to reST This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 15:21:35 +00:00
x86_64/index
Documentation: In-Field Scan Add documentation for In-Field Scan (IFS). This documentation describes the basics of IFS, the loading IFS image, chunk authentication, running scan and how to check result via sysfs. The CORE_CAPABILITIES MSR enumerates whether IFS is supported. The full github location for distributing the IFS images is still being decided. So just a placeholder included for now in the documentation. Future CPUs will support more than one type of test. Plan for that now by using a "_0" suffix on the ABI directory names. Additional test types will use "_1", etc. Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220506225410.1652287-13-tony.luck@intel.com Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2022-05-06 22:54:10 +00:00
ifs
Documentation/x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing) ENQCMD and Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) and all of their associated features are a complicated stack with lots of interconnected pieces. This documentation provides a big picture overview for all of the features. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1600187413-163670-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
2020-09-15 16:30:07 +00:00
sva
Documentation/x86: Document SGX kernel architecture Document the Intel SGX kernel architecture. The fine-grained architecture details can be looked up from Intel SDM Volume 3D. Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Jethro Beekman <jethro@fortanix.com> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201112220135.165028-24-jarkko@kernel.org
2020-11-12 22:01:34 +00:00
sgx
docs: archis: add a per-architecture features list Add a feature list matrix for each architecture to their respective Kernel books. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9c39d4dd93e05c0008205527d2c3450912f029ed.1606748711.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-11-30 15:36:35 +00:00
features
x86/elf: Support a new ELF aux vector AT_MINSIGSTKSZ Historically, signal.h defines MINSIGSTKSZ (2KB) and SIGSTKSZ (8KB), for use by all architectures with sigaltstack(2). Over time, the hardware state size grew, but these constants did not evolve. Today, literal use of these constants on several architectures may result in signal stack overflow, and thus user data corruption. A few years ago, the ARM team addressed this issue by establishing getauxval(AT_MINSIGSTKSZ). This enables the kernel to supply a value at runtime that is an appropriate replacement on current and future hardware. Add getauxval(AT_MINSIGSTKSZ) support to x86, analogous to the support added for ARM in 94b07c1f8c39 ("arm64: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv"). Also, include a documentation to describe x86-specific auxiliary vectors. Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210518200320.17239-4-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
2021-05-18 20:03:17 +00:00
elf_auxvec
Documentation/x86: Add documentation for using dynamic XSTATE features Explain how dynamic XSTATE features can be enabled via the architecture-specific prctl() along with dynamic sigframe size and first use trap handling. Fix: Documentation/x86/xstate.rst:15: WARNING: Title underline too short. as reported by Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211026091157.16711-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
2021-10-26 09:11:57 +00:00
xstate