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    cnode-metadata: Adds metadata field to capability/cnode/slot. · 468c4b15
    Charlie Jacobsen authored
    Motivation: The libcap user may want to associate some contextual
    information for each capability (rather than with the object). For
    example, the LCD microkernel uses metadata to track whether a page
    referred to by a page capability has been mapped and where.
    
    This metadata field *is not* carried over to child capabilities
    during grant, and is NULL'd out when a capability is deleted from
    a cspace (so when the slot is used again, the field starts out as
    NULL).
    
    Internals note: The cnode will start out with NULL metadata as well
    when it is first used because we do a zalloc to create cnode tables.
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