Re: Exception Handling - changing the IDT from a kernel module
Jose Miguel Pereira Tavares (mtavares@student.dei.uc.pt)
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:55:32 +0100
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Jose Miguel Pereira Tavares wrote:
>
>> Is there a gracefull way of changing the values of the IDT from
>> a kernel module? Or is going directly to the hardware the only way?
>
>why do you want to change the IDT? Linux takes care of IDT handling - and
>if you need something new then lets extend the kernel, not change the IDT
>directly.
I'm developing a fault injection tool, and as such I need to be able to
change the handlers of some exceptions, and then pass the control to the linux
kernel again.
-------------------- Jose Miguel Pereira Tavares --------------------
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