[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/5/18 4:41 PM, DaveFroble wrote:

> Now, as for Alpha, yes, OoO and such, but, the question would be, does 
> it allow "illegal" access to memory?  If Alpha does not allow loading 
> memory it should not into cache, then perhaps not a problem.

Alpha may not have any timer with precision sufficient to snoop the
cache. This based on the fact that reducing timer precision is one of
the mitigations in progress and that $GETTIM_PREC only came along in
v8.3-1H1 and is Itanium only and even with that you only get time to the
nearest 1ms, assuming I've understood this discussion correctly:

<http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/journal/v15/consistency_check.html>