Re: EFI mixed mode + perf = rampant triple faults

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:27:47AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> How are you manually triggering an MCE?  I've been playing with some
> MCE stuff recently, but the only reasonably reliable way I know of to
> trigger an MCE is using WHEA, and I don't have a box with WHEA, and I
> assume your ASUS T100 doesn't either.

asm volatile("int $18");

> Tianocore makes assumptions about the kernel's GDT layout?  Yuck.

Yuck indeed.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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