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Need to catch up. > > For PoC, I will just waste full order-0 page for page table. Packing is > not required for correctness. Yeah, I guess padding it out is ugly but effective. I was trying to figure out how it would apply to the KPTI pgd because we just flip bit 12 to switch between user and kernel PGDs. But I guess the 8k of PGDs in the current allocation will fit fine in 128k, so it's weird but functional.