[libre-riscv-dev] Spectre mitigation stratagies

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:20 AM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  so let me get this straight: this basically comes down to the
> > speculative branch firing off LD/ST operations that get cancelled?
> >
> not that they get cancelled, but that operations (not only ld/st) have
> visible side-effects even though they've been canceled.

 such as having loaded data into the cache.  i get that for LD/ST.
why would other operations be affected?

l.