Re:More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Ex...
by j_coder on Thursday January 04, 2018 @08:43PM
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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.
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Re:More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Ex...
by GrayShade on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:05AM
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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.