Re: system time issue

Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Wed, 09 Jan 2002 14:56:40 -0500


"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.

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