Re: [patch] i386: early pagefault handler

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jul 05 2006 - 12:38:12 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:

+hlt_loop:
+ hlt

There are still supported i386 CPUs that don't support HLT and
would recursively fault here.


The HLT has been supported since 8086. However, it was broken in some early 486s (not 386s); that's what the test in the kernel is for.

I don't remember what the failure mode was, though; didn't think it was recursive faulting.

-hpa
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