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        ticket/834-toolchain-update
        topic/msim-upgrade
        topic/simplify-dev-export
      
      
        
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Start with generic 4-level page table interface.
 
Usual cleanup.
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| 1 | Memory management | 
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| 2 | ================= | 
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| 3 |  | 
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| 4 | SPARTAN kernel deploys generic interface for 4-level page tables, | 
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| 5 | no matter what the real underlying hardware architecture is. | 
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| 6 |  | 
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| 7 |  | 
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| 8 | VADDR | 
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| 9 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 
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| 10 | |   PTL0_INDEX  |   PTL1_INDEX   |   PTL2_INDEX   |   PTL3_INDEX   |   OFFSET | | 
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| 11 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 
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| 12 |  | 
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| 13 |  | 
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| 14 | PTL0                   PTL1                   PTL2                   PTL3 | 
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| 15 | +--------+             +--------+             +--------+             +--------+ | 
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| 16 | |        |             |        |             |  PTL3  | -----\      |        | | 
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| 17 | |        |             |        |             +--------+      |      |        | | 
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| 18 | |        |             +--------+             |        |      |      |        | | 
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| 19 | |        |             |  PTL2  | -----\      |        |      |      |        | | 
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| 20 | |        |             +--------+      |      |        |      |      |        | | 
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| 21 | |        |             |        |      |      |        |      |      +--------+ | 
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| 22 | +--------+             |        |      |      |        |      |      | FRAME  | | 
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| 23 | |  PTL1  | -----\      |        |      |      |        |      |      +--------+ | 
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| 24 | +--------+      |      |        |      |      |        |      |      |        | | 
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| 25 | |        |      |      |        |      |      |        |      |      |        | | 
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| 26 | |        |      |      |        |      |      |        |      |      |        | | 
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| 27 | +--------+      \----> +--------+      \----> +--------+      \----> +--------+ | 
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| 28 | ^ | 
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| 29 | | | 
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| 30 | | | 
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| 31 | +--------+ | 
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| 32 | |  PTL0  | | 
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| 33 | +--------+ | 
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| 34 |  | 
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| 35 |  | 
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| 36 | PTL0            Page Table Level 0 (Page Directory) | 
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| 37 | PTL1            Page Table Level 1 | 
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| 38 | PTL2            Page Table Level 2 | 
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| 39 | PTL3            Page Table Level 3 | 
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| 40 |  | 
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| 41 | PTL0_INDEX      Index into PTL0 | 
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| 42 | PTL1_INDEX      Index into PTL1 | 
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| 43 | PTL2_INDEX      Index into PTL2 | 
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| 44 | PTL3_INDEX      Index into PTL3 | 
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| 45 |  | 
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| 46 | VADDR           Virtual address for which mapping is looked up | 
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| 47 | FRAME           Physical address of memory frame to which VADDR is mapped | 
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| 48 |  | 
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| 49 |  | 
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| 50 | On architectures whose hardware has fewer levels, PTL2 and, if need be, PTL1 are | 
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| 51 | left out. TLB-only architectures are to define custom format for software page | 
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| 52 | tables. | 
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