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
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