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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] docs: add PVH specification
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:16:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5420212A0200007800036DA3@mail.emea.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140920191510.GA2882@laptop.dumpdata.com>

>>> On 20.09.14 at 21:15, <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 07:19:24PM +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> +All the segments selectors are set with a flat base at zero.
>> +
>> +The `cs` segment selector attributes are set to 0x0a09b, which describes an
>> +executable and readable code segment only accessible by the most privileged
>> +level. The segment is also set as a 64-bit code segment (`L` flag set, `D` flag
>> +unset).
>> +
>> +The remaining segment selectors (`ds`, `ss`, `es`, `fs` and `gs`) are all set
>> +to the same values. The attributes are set to 0x0c093, which implies a read and
>> +write data segment only accessible by the most privileged level.
> 
> I think the SS, ES, FS, GS are set to the null selector in 64-bit mode.

Right - with their hidden portions set to what is being said in
Roger's description.

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18 17:19 [PATCH v3] docs: add PVH specification Roger Pau Monne
2014-09-20 19:15 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 11:16   ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2014-09-22 13:40     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 11:36   ` Roger Pau Monné
2014-09-22 14:02     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 14:08       ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-23  0:38 ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-09-23 13:16   ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-26  0:00     ` Mukesh Rathor
2014-09-26  6:32       ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-29 17:38       ` Roger Pau Monné
2014-09-29 17:45         ` David Vrabel

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