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		saagarjha on Oct 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A bug that doesn’t exist on x86: Exploiting an ARM... TSO is a per-thread flag; it’s implemented as a write to a MSR on context switch to switch it on or off.

gpderetta on Oct 27, 2021 [–]

Right, is it POWER that has a per page TSO flag?

saagarjha on Oct 27, 2021 | [–]

I actually do not know, sadly.

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