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| author | Graeme Russ | 2011-12-19 14:26:18 +1100 |
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| committer | Graeme Russ | 2012-01-04 22:29:40 +1100 |
| commit | 58c7a6751dd0978172741503b4dc0c6b23a60b33 (patch) | |
| tree | ab4730c79a8c522afc5c5ba02343aa2bb1e33f61 /arch | |
| parent | 98f1fa9fd4f468c67b5f4d16077898992d6bae0b (diff) | |
x86: Tweak IDT and GDT for alignment and readability
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Changes for v2:
- Renamed to better reflect nature of changes
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/cpu/interrupts.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/cpu/start16.S | 57 |
2 files changed, 46 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/cpu/interrupts.c b/arch/x86/cpu/interrupts.c index e0958eb67f4..43ec3f8b081 100644 --- a/arch/x86/cpu/interrupts.c +++ b/arch/x86/cpu/interrupts.c @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ struct desc_ptr { unsigned short segment; } __packed; -struct idt_entry idt[256] __attribute__((aligned(16))); +struct idt_entry idt[256] __aligned(16); struct desc_ptr idt_ptr; diff --git a/arch/x86/cpu/start16.S b/arch/x86/cpu/start16.S index 33e53cdb3b6..cc393ff54fc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/cpu/start16.S +++ b/arch/x86/cpu/start16.S @@ -86,7 +86,11 @@ gdt_ptr: .word 0x20 /* limit (32 bytes = 4 GDT entries) */ .long BOOT_SEG + gdt /* base */ - /* The GDT table ... +/* Some CPUs are picky about GDT alignment... */ +.align 16 +gdt: + /* + * The GDT table ... * * Selector Type * 0x00 NULL @@ -94,17 +98,46 @@ gdt_ptr: * 0x10 32bit code * 0x18 32bit data/stack */ + /* The NULL Desciptor - Mandatory */ + .word 0x0000 /* limit_low */ + .word 0x0000 /* base_low */ + .byte 0x00 /* base_middle */ + .byte 0x00 /* access */ + .byte 0x00 /* flags + limit_high */ + .byte 0x00 /* base_high */ -gdt: - .word 0, 0, 0, 0 /* NULL */ - .word 0, 0, 0, 0 /* unused */ + /* Unused Desciptor - (matches Linux) */ + .word 0x0000 /* limit_low */ + .word 0x0000 /* base_low */ + .byte 0x00 /* base_middle */ + .byte 0x00 /* access */ + .byte 0x00 /* flags + limit_high */ + .byte 0x00 /* base_high */ - .word 0xFFFF /* 4Gb - (0x100000*0x1000 = 4Gb) */ - .word 0 /* base address = 0 */ - .word 0x9B00 /* code read/exec */ - .word 0x00CF /* granularity = 4096, 386 (+5th nibble of limit) */ + /* + * The Code Segment Descriptor: + * - Base = 0x00000000 + * - Size = 4GB + * - Access = Present, Ring 0, Exec (Code), Readable + * - Flags = 4kB Granularity, 32-bit + */ + .word 0xffff /* limit_low */ + .word 0x0000 /* base_low */ + .byte 0x00 /* base_middle */ + .byte 0x9b /* access */ + .byte 0xcf /* flags + limit_high */ + .byte 0x00 /* base_high */ - .word 0xFFFF /* 4Gb - (0x100000*0x1000 = 4Gb) */ - .word 0x0 /* base address = 0 */ - .word 0x9300 /* data read/write */ - .word 0x00CF /* granularity = 4096, 386 (+5th nibble of limit) */ + /* + * The Data Segment Descriptor: + * - Base = 0x00000000 + * - Size = 4GB + * - Access = Present, Ring 0, Non-Exec (Data), Writable + * - Flags = 4kB Granularity, 32-bit + */ + .word 0xffff /* limit_low */ + .word 0x0000 /* base_low */ + .byte 0x00 /* base_middle */ + .byte 0x93 /* access */ + .byte 0xcf /* flags + limit_high */ + .byte 0x00 /* base_high */ |