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mitigations.7: Describe LASS
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emaste requested review of this revision.Fri, Feb 13, 8:32 PM
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Will bump when ready to push

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"technique" sounds a bit wrong, maybe "feature" or "mechanism"?

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As written, it feels like the next sentence should explain the mitigation a bit. Absent that, maybe, "LASS additionally mitigates Meltdown-style speculative-execution side-channel attacks"?

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Extra newline.

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or "is controlled by the hw.lass tunable"

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