General Protection Fault: Intel, X86, AMD, X86-64, CPU Architecture, Fault (technology), Interrupt, Processor architecture, Kernel, Vector, Decimal, ... fault, Interrupt vector, BSOD, Triple fault - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 613075793X ISBN 13: 9786130757939

Publisher: Alphascript Publishing, 2010

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.A General Protection Fault in the Intel x86 and AMD x86-64 architectures, and other unrelated architectures, is a fault (a type of interrupt) which can encompass several cases where protection mechanisms within the processor architecture are violated by any of the programs that are running, whether it be the kernel or user program. The mechanism is first described in section 9.8.13 in Intel 80386 Programmer''s reference manual from 1986. The General Protection Fault is implemented as an interrupt (vector number 13 in decimal) in both x86 and AMD64-architectures. If the processor detects a protection violation it stops executing the code and sends a General Protection Fault interrupt. In most cases the operating system will simply remove the failing process from the execution queue, signal the user and continue executing another program. If however the operating system fails to catch the General Protection Fault, i.e. another protection violation occurs before the operating system returns from the previous General Protection Fault-interrupt, the processor will signal a double fault (interrupt vector 8, a typical BSOD scenario).

Edition details

• Publisher: Alphascript Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 613075793X
• ISBN 13: 9786130757939
• Binding: Tapa blanda
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Miller Frederic P, Vandome Agnes F, McBrewster John