Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst

Extension

.rst

Size

631 bytes

Lines

30

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

Documentation

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: documentation

Status

atlas-only

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

Dependency Surface

• No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

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Hardware vulnerabilities
========================

This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and provides an overview of the
possible mitigations along with guidance for selecting mitigations if they
are configurable at compile, boot or run time.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   attack_vector_controls
   spectre
   l1tf
   mds
   tsx_async_abort
   multihit
   special-register-buffer-data-sampling
   core-scheduling
   l1d_flush
   processor_mmio_stale_data
   cross-thread-rsb
   srso
   gather_data_sampling
   reg-file-data-sampling
   rsb
   old_microcode
   indirect-target-selection
   vmscape

Annotation

• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
• Implementation status: atlas-only.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.