From: Nadav Amit > Sent: 21 January 2018 23:46 > > I wanted to see whether segments protection can be a replacement for PTI > (yes, excluding SMEP emulation), or whether speculative execution “ignores” > limit checks, similarly to the way paging protection is skipped. That's made me remember something about segment limits applying in 64bit mode. I really can't remember the details at all. I'm sure it had something to do with one of the VM implementations restricting memory accesses. David ��.n������g����a����&ޖ)���)��h���&������梷�����Ǟ�m������)������^�����������v���O��zf������