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Re:M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability by marcan_42 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @03:43AM (#27287570)
It's an implementation-defined register, which means it's up to Apple to define it. We have no idea what it does; we haven't observed any visible effects from flipping those bits. Given that it's per-cluster, we can infer that it has something to do with cluster-specific logic. Perhaps memory interface or power control.

There are hundreds of Apple implementation-defined registers; we're documenting them as we learn more about them [0] [1] [2]

[0] https://github.com/AsahiLinux/m1n1/blob/main/tools/apple_reg...

[1] https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/HW%3AARM-System-Regi...

[2] https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/HW%3AARM-System-Regi...

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