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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:20:15 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Sergio =?iso-8859-1?q?Andr=E9s_G=F3mez_del_Real?= <sergio.g.delreal@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Quick i386 question...
Message-ID:  <201011220920.15431.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Saturday, November 20, 2010 3:38:58 pm Sergio Andr=E9s G=F3mez del Real =
wrote:
> If received an interrupt while in protected-mode and paging enabled,
> is linear address from IDT stored at the idtr translated using the
> paging-hierarchy structures?
> I have looked at the interrupt/exception chapter in the corresponding
> Intel manual but can't find the answer. Maybe I overlooked.

Yes.  A linear address is the flat virtual address after segments are taken=
=20
into account.  It is the address used as an input to the paging support in =
the=20
MMU.

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John Baldwin



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