Operating system apparatus for micro-architectural state isolation
Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed relating to preventing a process from using state information to control a flow of execution of different process. Accordingly, a processor of a computing device may execute a first process and store state information usable to facilitate speculative execution of that first process. An operating system of the computing device may determine whether the first process is trusted by the operating system. The operating system may further schedule a second process for execution of the processor after executing the first process. In response to determining that the first process is not trusted, the operating system may cause the processor to execute one or more instructions before executing the second process. These one or more instructions may prevent the stored state information of the first process from affecting execution of the second process.
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