[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH 4/4] more sampling fun 4

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

hi,

On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 12:54:22AM +0100, speck for Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 18:21 +0200, speck for Mark Gross wrote:
> > From: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH 4/4] x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation
> >  documentation
> > 
> > commit 7222a1b5b87417f22265c92deea76a6aecd0fb0f upstream
> > 
> > Add documentation for the SRBDS vulnerability and its mitigation.
> > 
> >  [ bp: Massage.
> >    jpoimboe: sysfs table strings. ]
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> > Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  .../special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst | 148 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  Documentation/hw-vuln/index.rst               |   1 +
> >  2 files changed, 149 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..6a473da80b62
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst
> [...]
> 
> This should go under Documentation/hw-vuln as there is no admin-guide
> directory on 4.9...
> 
> > --- a/Documentation/hw-vuln/index.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/hw-vuln/index.rst
> > @@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ are configurable at compile, boot or run time.
> >     mds
> >     tsx_async_abort
> >     multihit.rst
> > +   special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst
> 
> ...and this index will be broken.

This comment from Ben seems to have got lost. Do you have it on the
radar for the 4.9.x backports?

Regards,
Salvatore