What Every Hacker Should Know About TLB Invalidation [pdf]

Re:What Every Hacker Should Know About TLB Invalidation [pdf] by immibis on Thursday January 16, 2025 @09:41AM (#42725804)

I conclude that the title is wrong. Every developer doesn't need to know these things - only kernel developers need to know about TLB invalidation.

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Re:What Every Hacker Should Know About TLB Invalidation [pdf] by egberts1 on Thursday January 16, 2025 @09:46AM (#42725881)

And us machine emulators too, like Fabrice Bellard (QEMU) and me (and my OP post detailed the failing of emulated TLB in QEMU as discovered by Unicorn emulator).

Unicorn emulator - https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn

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Re:What Every Hacker Should Know About TLB Invalidation [pdf] by bell-cot on Thursday January 16, 2025 @10:31AM (#42726601)

Every developer needs to know that cache invalidation is one of the two hard things in computer science - and that people further down in your stack occasionally get it wrong.

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