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Add explicit note about PTE bits in non-leaf nodes
Explicitly say that they are still reserved in non-leaf nodes. This matches the behaviour for Svpmbt for example (and I copied some of the text from there).
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@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The page table entry format remains unchanged for Sv32. However, two new
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bits, Capability Write (CW) and Capability Read
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Generation (CRG), are added to leaf PTEs in Sv39, Sv48 and Sv57 as shown in
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xref:sv39pte[xrefstyle=short], xref:sv48pte[xrefstyle=short] and
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xref:sv57pte[xrefstyle=short] respectively.
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xref:sv57pte[xrefstyle=short] respectively. For non-leaf PTEs these bits remain reserved and must be cleared by software for forward compatibility, or else a page-fault exception is raised.
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.Sv39 page table entry
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[#sv39pte]

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