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amd64: Zero the PML5 PTI page when initializing a pmap
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Authored by markj on Oct 16 2021, 9:20 PM.
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Summary

The root page is not zeroed at allocation time since with 4-level tables
each entry is copied from a template. However, with 5-level tables only
a single entry is filled, so the rest need to be cleared.

Reported by: alc

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