2022-06-15 03:49:57

by Pawan Gupta

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Clarify the affected CPUs list for Processor MMIO Stale Data

Add clarifying text that list of affected processors is limited to the
processors that are within the support window.

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
---
.../admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
index 9393c50b5afc..49c30ae53894 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ Not all the CPUs are affected by all the variants. For instance, most
processors for the server market (excluding Intel Xeon E3 processors) are
impacted by only Device Register Partial Write (DRPW).

-Below is the list of affected Intel processors [#f1]_:
+Below is the list of affected Intel processors within the support window at the
+time of disclosure [#f1]_:

=================== ============ =========
Common name Family_Model Steppings
--
2.35.3