Re: What exactly do 32-bit x86 exceptions push on the stack in the CS slot?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Nov 21 2016 - 13:30:50 EST


On 11/21/16 10:00, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Ugh.
>
> I'd much rather we go back to just making the "cs" entry explicitly
> 16-bit, and have a separate padding entry, the way we used to long
> long ago.
>

I would agree 100% with this.

-hpa