Re: system time issue

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020109145747.144A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
By author:    "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> 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.
> 

That is only invoked *IF REQUESTED BY USERSPACE*.

This is the real termination:

        if(!reboot_thru_bios) {
                /* rebooting needs to touch the page at absolute addr
                0 */
                *((unsigned short *)__va(0x472)) = reboot_mode;
                for (;;) {
                        int i;
                        for (i=0; i<100; i++) {
                                kb_wait();
                                udelay(50);
                                outb(0xfe,0x64);         /* pulse reset low */
                                udelay(50);
                        }
                        /* That didn't work - force a triple fault.. */
                        __asm__ __volatile__("lidt %0": :"m" (no_idt));
                        __asm__ __volatile__("int3");
                }
        }

Zero the IDT and force an interrupt -> triple fault.

	-hpa
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