x86/mm: Comment _PAGE_GLOBAL mystery

I was mystified as to where the _PAGE_GLOBAL in the kernel page tables
for kernel text came from.  I audited all the places I could find, but
I missed one: head_64.S.

The page tables that we create in here live for a long time, and they
also have _PAGE_GLOBAL set, despite whether the processor supports it
or not.  It's harmless, and we got *lucky* that the pageattr code
accidentally clears it when we wipe it out of __supported_pte_mask and
then later try to mark kernel text read-only.

Comment some of these properties to make it easier to find and
understand in the future.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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