Define paging-related constants for the amd64 architecture

kernel/mem/vmm/constants_amd64.go

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+// +build amd64
+
+package vmm
+
+import "math"
+
+const (
+	// pageLevels indicates the number of page levels supported by the amd64 architecture.
+	pageLevels = 4
+
+	// ptePhysPageMask is a mask that allows us to extract the physical memory
+	// address pointed to by a page table entry. For this particular architecture,
+	// bits 12-51 contain the physical memory address.
+	ptePhysPageMask = uintptr(0x000ffffffffff000)
+)
+
+var (
+	// pdtVirtualAddr is a special virtual address that exploits the
+	// recursive mapping used in the last PDT entry for each page directory
+	// to allow accessing the PDT (P4) table using the system's MMU address
+	// translation mechanism.  By setting all page level bits to 1 the MMU
+	// keeps following the last P4 entry for all page levels landing on the
+	// P4.
+	pdtVirtualAddr = uintptr(math.MaxUint64 &^ ((1 << 12) - 1))
+
+	// pageLevelBits defines the number of virtual address bits that correspond to each
+	// page level. For the amd64 architecture each PageLevel uses 9 bits which amounts to
+	// 512 entries for each page level.
+	pageLevelBits = [pageLevels]uint8{
+		9,
+		9,
+		9,
+		9,
+	}
+
+	// pageLevelShifts defines the shift required to access each page table component
+	// of a virtual address.
+	pageLevelShifts = [pageLevels]uint8{
+		39,
+		30,
+		21,
+		12,
+	}
+)
+
+const (
+	// FlagPresent is set when the page is available in memory and not swapped out.
+	FlagPresent PageTableEntryFlag = 1 << iota
+
+	// FlagRW is set if the page can be written to.
+	FlagRW
+
+	// FlagUserAccessible is set if user-mode processes can access this page. If
+	// not set only kernel code can access this page.
+	FlagUserAccessible
+
+	// FlagWriteThroughCaching implies write-through caching when set and write-back
+	// caching if cleared.
+	FlagWriteThroughCaching
+
+	// FlagDoNotCache prevents this page from being cached if set.
+	FlagDoNotCache
+
+	// FlagAccessed is set by the CPU when this page is accessed.
+	FlagAccessed
+
+	// FlagDirty is set by the CPU when this page is modified.
+	FlagDirty
+
+	// FlagHugePage is set if when using 2Mb pages instead of 4K pages.
+	FlagHugePage
+
+	// FlagGlobal if set, prevents the TLB from flushing the cached memory address
+	// for this page when the swapping page tables by updating the CR3 register.
+	FlagGlobal
+
+	// FlagNoExecute if set, indicates that a page contains non-executable code.
+	FlagNoExecute = 1 << 63
+)