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from what I understand AMD and ARM are also affected by the toy POC, quote Out-of-order execution is an indispensable performance feature and present in
by alsadi 9y ago
from what I understand AMD and ARM are also affected by the toy POC, quote
Out-of-order execution is an indispensable performance feature and present in a wide range of modern processors.
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However, for both ARM and AMD, the toy example as described in Section 3 works reliably, indicating that out-of-order execution generally occurs and instructions past illegal memory accesses are also performed
end of quote
it just need more work to make it work their
https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf
- K0nserv 9y agoI saw some speculation that AMD might raise the kernel memory read exception earlier than Intel which prevents any subsequent instructions from using the value fetched from the kernel address space.