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Re:Founder of GenodeLabs OS framework discusses impact of Me... by peoplewindow on Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:46AM (#16085049)
Spectre works across address spaces, user->user so how does a microkernel help?
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Re:Founder of GenodeLabs OS framework discusses impact of Me... by mkup on Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:55AM (#16085079)
It works across address spaces only if OS scheduler runs affected processes on the same CPU core, so hardware state of branch predictor is shared.
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