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The risk of speculative updates to branch predictor and page tables was known to the research community for a while. Even if it was initially an unintentional
by em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
The risk of speculative updates to branch predictor and page tables was known to the research community for a while. Even if it was initially an unintentional bug, they had plenty of time to take precautions against it by prohibiting speculative updates.