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Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes: Hello Mikulas, >> Where's the magic? > Processor will do double fault prior to triple fault. Double fault > exception 8 points to a task switch gate --- and task switch doesn't > require correct ESP. So it loads new ESP from task state segment of that > gate and calls doublefault_fn. A task switch gate! Finally that makes sense to me. Thanks for pointing this out! Regards, Julien - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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