> But the EIP has to access the instructions. After the mov, you're
> still at low memory. Paging is turned on at this time. The  JMP is
> running at 0x10000something. So you turn paging on and do a jump, but
> paging is on when you do the jmp and fetch from low memory. To make
> the ifetch work you have to have the low map on.
> 
> I'll look at that code tonight again to make sure I'm not imaging
> things, but I think this is right.
> 
> ron

that sounds logical to me, i was thinking that this would work because
the processor had already fetched the next instruction.  but, duh,
        mov x, crn
is a serializing instruction.  (amd arch reference, vol 3, p. 280.)

thanks.

- erik

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