On 6/17/19 3:16 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > 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. Jonathan, I want to actually have a generated reference section. The method you suggested will generate the reference link as a footer on the same page that refers to the link. I haven't quite figured out how to generate a proper bibliography like reference section with hyperlink after googling for quite a while. > >> 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. > Thanks for this suggestion. Tim
