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by somebody_amzn 1820 days ago
Yeah, Meltdown did affect quite some Arm CPUs, including the Cortex-A75 too.

However, due to specific features of the Arm architecture, it was patchable without a significant performance hit.

(see this section: https://siguza.github.io/KTRR/#meltdownspectre-mitigations-1..., which made the need for actually doing a page table switch avoidable)

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Interesting, thanks for the link!