Re: system time issue

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Brian Gerst wrote:

> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> > 
> > The code works by disabling paging while executing code where
> > there is not a 1:1 physical/virtual page mapping. I have never
> > found a system, even one with two CPUs that did not instantly
> > reset.
> 
> All you are doing is causing a triple fault, started with most likely an
> invalid op fault.  There are many ways of doing that, including the no
> idt way the kernel currently uses, which IMHO would be more reliable
> that depending on the processor crashing on random memory.
> 
> --
> 
> 				Brian Gerst

Kernel version 2.4.1 through 17 (last I checked 17) used a bunch of
ways including the keyboard controller, the aux control port, then
finaly a transition to 16-bit address space with direct execution
of the reset vector. I found that the only reason the transition
to 16-bits "worked" was because of coding errors which caused the
processor reset.

Therefore, I created a deliberate "coding error" which actually
doesn't require fetching random instructions. The processor never
even gets to fetch anything because a CS selector for the correct
segment has never been loaded. It can't fetch instructions and,
in fact a logic analyzer shows that the last memory access was
the dword load of the trash CR0 instructions plus some additional
cache-line fill of valid code.
 
Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

    I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
    attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
    was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.