Yeah, Meltdown did affect quite some Arm CPUs, including the Cortex-A75 too. However, due to specific features of the Arm architecture, it was patchable withou

Yeah, Meltdown did affect quite some Arm CPUs, including the Cortex-A75 too. However, due to specific features of the Arm architecture, it was patchable without a significant performance hit. (see this section: https://siguza.github.io/KTRR/#meltdownspectre-mitigations-112 https://siguza.github.io/KTRR/#meltdownspectre-mitigations-1..., which made the need for actually doing a page table switch avoidable)