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From:   Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] spectre hardware-software cooperative mitigation
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> This is going to be a mammoth task. The alternatives are to continue
> as things are, which is a mess that cannot be cleaned up by either of
> (mutually exclusive) hardware or software alone.
> 
> Thoughts and feedback appreciated.

You need to be talking to the JIT developers not asking here I think.
Speculative attacks in JIT environments is a topic an order of magnitude
or more complex than the kernel cases because there isn't even process
isolation between the JIT, JIT engin eand support logic.

Alan