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Danila Fedorin 2019-05-13 23:05:00 -07:00
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@ -10,3 +10,9 @@ to perform the same action for both traps - they don't mean the same thing.
2. The general protection fault occurs when a process can access memory, but not do something else with it. We do not want page faults to be trigger-able by users (this is the case for many other traps). Thus, when the user tries to invoke int 14,
it's not allowed to execute it from userspace, so it is thrown a general protection fault, which it then prints.
3. Unlike most other traps, the debugging trap should be possible to trigger from user code. If the "privillege level" is set to 0 in the IDT, when the INT3 occurs, the user does not have permission to call that interrupt,
and thus, a general protection fault occurs. In order to make it work correctly, the privillege level needs to be 3 (for userland).
4. It's probably so that users cannot deliberately trigger certain faults for malicious purposes. It doesn't make sense to trigger a page fault without properly setting up CR2, and even then, though I can't think
of anything right now, there's likely security issues that could arise if users can deliberately page fault their own process.