Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:26:58 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: kernel_thread bogosity |
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:52:47PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > How can that work? restore_args ends with iret, anyway, and iret does > reload esp afaics...
... only if there's an IPL change during the iret. Page 3-321 of 24319102.pdf from Intel:
[..] If the return is to another privilege level, the IRET instruction also pops the stack pointer and SS from the stack, before resuming program execution. [..]
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