[HN Gopher] The AMD Branch (Mis)Predictor Part 2: Where No CPU H... ___________________________________________________________________ The AMD Branch (Mis)Predictor Part 2: Where No CPU Has Gone Before Author : gbrown_ Score : 86 points Date : 2022-03-08 18:21 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (grsecurity.net) (TXT) w3m dump (grsecurity.net) | CorrectHorseBat wrote: | Too bad Grsecurity isn't able to work together with upstream, | their security knowledge seems to be legit. | staticassertion wrote: | Alternatively phrased, too bad upstream isn't able to work with | Grsecurity. | RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: | SPS Theorem | | Pick two: | | Shared Physical Hardware | | Performance | | Security | mjevans wrote: | Pick, __at most__, two | cwillu wrote: | The final pithy quote about how a prominent linux developer | claimed no cpu would ever do such a thing, loses some of its | impact when you realize that a _more_ prominent linux developer | replied saying "I think, when it comes to speculative execution, | our general expectation that CPUs don't do idiotic things got | somewhat weakened in the past year or so ..." ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-08 23:00 UTC)