On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> No. If interrupt uses task gate, task switch happens. Nothing is stored
> in context of old process except registers into TSS. There is only one
> (bad) problem. If you want to get it 100% proof (it is not needed for double
> fault, but it is definitely needed for NMI, as NMI is very often on SMP
> ia32), each CPU's IRQ vector must point to different task, otherwise you
> can get TSS in use during doublefault, leading to triplefault again...
Well, I expect wasting a descriptor and a page of memory for the purpose
of a TSS is not a big problem.
> Yes. Currently if any ESP related problem happens in kernel, machine silently
> reboots without any message. With task gate (as Jeff Merkey proposed
You might handle the stack fault with a task gate, actually, but I'm not
sure it's worth the hassle. Handling just the double fault should be
sufficient.
> some months ago, btw), you can even suspend offending task and recover
> from it... I think that also bluesmoke should use task gate, but I
> did not read documentation on this yet.
Yep. An MCE is an abort like a double-fault, so the CPU state might be
corrupted (by definition -- I have no idea whether it really happens).
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