Query related to special pte mappings

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These questions got raised while I was going through vm_normal_page - 

1) Why are there some special pte_mappings? [when i went through mm/memory.c, ]
2) why is [is_zero_pfn] zero pfn used?

I followed the code path, but could not understand semantically what is a special pte mapping used for and this zer_pfn? It would be great if you can please point me to resources.

Thanks !
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