Re:MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips
by jprx on Monday June 13, 2022 @11:30AM
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Unwinding changes to the TLB on every mispredict would have a significant overhead and hurt overall performance. Removing valid data you just cached (speculatively or otherwise) is generally a bad idea.
User mode software requires a TLB (unless you want to do a page walk for every single instruction!)
Even if you could remove the TLB entirely from the CPU somehow, the attacker could just use the cache or some other microarchitectural structure.
User mode software requires a TLB (unless you want to do a page walk for every single instruction!)
Even if you could remove the TLB entirely from the CPU somehow, the attacker could just use the cache or some other microarchitectural structure.