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To:     WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>, Qi Hu <huqi@loongson.cn>,
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在 2022/7/7 9:56, WANG Xuerui 写道:
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> However, the experiment result is counter-intuitive to me after all; 
> are you aware that perhaps *some* 3A5000's in the wild actually have 
> functional VCSR? If so, the state obviously needs isolation 
> (saving/restoring simply becoming no-ops on later steppings), but 
> otherwise this cleanup should be correct.
^ Yep, my concern was 3A5000 with VCSR enabled can be vulnerable.

Thanks
- Jiaxun