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authorAndrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>2017-05-04 22:29:56 -0700
committerAndrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>2017-05-04 22:29:56 -0700
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@@ -1107,6 +1107,9 @@ Any level of PTE may be a leaf PTE, so in addition to 4 KiB pages, Sv32
supports 4 MiB {\em megapages}. A megapage must be virtually and
physically aligned to a 4 MiB boundary.
+For non-leaf PTEs, the D, A, and U bits are reserved for future use and
+must be cleared by software for forward compatibility.
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\subsection{Virtual Address Translation Process}
\label{sv32algorithm}