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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+#ifndef XEN_MM_TYPES_H
+#define XEN_MM_TYPES_H
+
+/*
+ * Types used to abstract away architecture-specific details in the memory
+ * management code.
+ *
+ * Architectures need only provide their own asm/mm-types.h if they want to
+ * override the defaults given here.
+ */
+#if __has_include(<asm/mm-types.h>)
+# include <asm/mm-types.h>
+#else /* !__has_include(<asm/mm-types.h>) */
+
+typedef unsigned int pte_attr_t;
+
+#endif /* !__has_include(<asm/mm-types.h>) */
+#endif /* XEN_MM_TYPES_H */