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INTERRUPTS AND EXCEPTIONS
9.6 PROTECTION EXCEPTIONS AND RESERVED VECTORS
A protection violation will cause an exception, i.e., a non-maskable interrupt. Such a fault can be
handled
by the task that caused it if an interrupt or trap gate is used, or by a different task if a task
gate
is used (in the IDT).
Protection exceptions can
be classified into program errors or implicit requests for service. The latter
include stack overflow and not-present faults. Examples of program errors include attempting
to write
into a read-only segment, or violating segment limits.
Requests for service may use different interrupt vectors, but many diverse types of protection violation
use the same general protection fault vector. Table
9-3 shows the reserved exceptions and interrupts.
Interrupts
0-31 are reserved by Intel.
When simultaneous external interrupt requests occur, they are processed
in the fixed order shown in
table 9-4. For each interrupt serviced, the machine state is saved. The new CS:IP is loaded from the
gate or
TSS. If other interrupts remain enabled, they are processed before the first instruction of the
current interrupt handler, i.e., the last interrupt processed
is serviced first.
Table 9-3. Reserved Exceptions and Interrupts
Vector
Description Restartable
Error Code
Number
on Stack
0
Divide Error Exception
Yes No
1
Single Step Interrupt
Yes No
2
NMI Interrupt
Yes
No
3
Breakpoint
Interrupt
Yes No
4
INTO Detected Overflow Exception
Yes No
5
BOUND Range Exceeded Exception
Yes No
6 Invalid Opcode Exception
Yes No
7 Processor Extension Not Available Exception
Yes No
8 Double Exception Detected
No Yes (Always
0)
9
Processor Extension Segment Overrun Interrupt
No No
10 Invalid Task State Segment
Yes Yes
11 Segment Not Present
Yes Yes
12
Stack Segment Overrun or Not Present
Yes Yes
13 General Protection
Yes' Yes
• Except for writes into read-only segments (see section 9.6)
Table 9-4. Interrupt Processing Order
Order
Interrupt
1
Instruction exception
2
Single step
3 NMI
4
Processor extension segment overrun
5 INTR
9-9