On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Alexander Kleinsorge <al...@physik.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > As Meltdown-Issue depends on allowing to cause many exceptions (usually : > accessing an invalid address), we could restrict this misusage easy.
The accesses to the invalid address are performed speculatively by the CPU in a code branch that is later found to be not taken. Hence there are no exceptions at all. -Tony