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SubjectRe: EFI mixed mode + perf = rampant triple faults
On Wed, 14 Jan, at 10:27:47AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
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> How are you manually triggering an MCE? I've been playing with some
> MCE stuff recently, but the only reasonably reliable way I know of to
> trigger an MCE is using WHEA, and I don't have a box with WHEA, and I
> assume your ASUS T100 doesn't either.

As Borislav mentions, I used 'int $18', solely to trigger the 64-bit
exception handler code paths in the middle of the EFI mixed mode code.

> > Where this won't work so well is at boot time before we jump to the
> > kernel proper. There, we still need to restore the firmware's GDT so
> > that interrupts are serviced correctly before ExitBootServices() (in
> > particular, ia32 Tianocore assumes __KERNEL_CS is a 32-bit CS).
>
> Tianocore makes assumptions about the kernel's GDT layout? Yuck.

No, but 32-bit Tianocore does rely on the second GDT entry being a
32-bit CS.

It has no knowledge of Linux's GDT layout.

--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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