Paper reading homework

For this lecture, read the paper Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space.

Assuming the RISC-V implemented the kind of out-of-order execution that Meltdown relies on, what data could a user program steal from the kernel using Meltdown?

Submit your answer in an ASCII text file named homework.txt to the corresponding "Lecture N" assignment on Gradescope.

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