On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:21:51 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > +Spectre variant 1 attacks take advantage of speculative execution of > > +conditional branches, while Spectre variant 2 attacks use speculative > > +execution of indirect branches to leak privileged memory. See [1] [5] > > +[7] [10] [11]. > > It would be great to actually link these [N] to the actual http link at the > bottom. No idea what's the best way to do that. > > Jonathan? Append an underscore to the link text, so: See [1_] [5_] ... Then, when adding the links: .. _1: https://.../ There are other ways; see http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#external-hyperlink-targets for the list. > The below renders horribly when converted to HTML > > You probably want to wrap these into a table > > > + nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 > > + (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may > > + allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent > > + to spectre_v2=off. > > + > > + > > + spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 > > + (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. > > + The default operation protects the kernel from > > + user space attacks. > > Maybe Jonathan has a better idea. The easiest thing is probably a definition list: nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) ... spectrev2= ... i.e. just move the descriptive text into an indented block below the term of interest. jon
