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        "The scaled value\\nhas no reason to be 128K aligned, and on a Battlemage G21 with 16 GiB it\\nis not:\\n\\n\\tflat CCS base: raw 0x3fafff800, rounded 0x3fb000000\\n\\nso the last 2 KiB of page 0x3fafff000 is CCS storage, in the allocator's\\npool.",
        "Whatever is allocated there gets that tail overwritten by the\\ncompression hardware, which needs no page-table entry, no buffer object\\nand no GPU submission to do it, and does it before userspace exists.\\n\\nOn this machine a Mesa VM's level-3 page table la...",
        "On this\\nmachine that excludes exactly one page.\\n\\nReading the reserved page afterwards shows what had been writing it:\\n\\n\\t[369] 0xcccc000000000000\\n\\t[371] 0xcc77000000000000\\n\\t[373] 0xcccc000000000000\\n\\t[375] 0xcc77000000000000\\n\\ncompression metadat..."
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