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Re:More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Ex... by j_coder on Thursday January 04, 2018 @08:43PM (#16075815)
It would make sense if it was the only alternative as the kernel can handle it. The appropriate behavior is to remove all traces of the speculative execution including cache hits.
Re:More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Ex... by GrayShade on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:05AM (#16077085)
Is that even possible? The data that would need to be removed from the cache has already evicted other cache lines, and that re-fetching those might have observable effects, like the timing.