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# Meltdown
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* [PoC from IAIK](https://github.com/IAIK/meltdown.git)
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* Each page table entries has the following flag values
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* SUP (user or kernel mode)
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* READ
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* WRITE
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* Flags are checked by the MMU
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* Pipelined steps of an instruction are the following
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* Fetch
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* Decode
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* Execute
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* Memory access
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* Register write back
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* A pipeline can execute one of each steps concurrently every clock cycle.
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* The MMU may jump between instruction queued in the pipeline to make use of time while the current instruction stalls.
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* __Speculative execution__ is the reordering of instructions to speed up execution inside the pipeline.
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* If a condition is executed speculatively, kernel memory may be executed. No error is thrown, because the is no assurance if the condition will actually be executed in the end.
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* [Kernel Page Table Isolation](http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2018-02-09/kpti-kaiser-meltdown-performance.html) can be used to mitigate meltdown.
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