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Authored by andrew on Oct 15 2024, 2:02 PM.
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Summary

The ID_AA64MMFR1_EL0.SpecSEI field needs to use MRS_HIGHER to get the
largest value from all CPUs. This is because it indicates when an
exception might happen when it's non-zero and can't happen when zero.
As indicating something that might happen even when it can't is safer
use MRS_HIGHER to handle this field.

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