[PATCH] D49433: [x86/SLH] Add the design document for Speculative Load Hardening, a Spectre v1 mitigation.

[Eli Friedman via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

efriedma added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/docs/SpeculativeLoadHardening.md:506
+when the register pressure is sufficient to make it worth spilling to memory
+and reloading.
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Does spilling the register to memory potentially introduce new issues?  The program could use a speculative buffer overflow to clobber it, like in variant 1.1.


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D49433