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The Unabridged Pentium 4 IA32 Processor Genealogy
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The Unabridged Pentium 4 IA32 Processor Genealogy

by Tom Shanley, Bob Colwell
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1744 pages
35h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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New/Altered Exceptions

Exception 13d

Enhanced. The GP exception predates the Pentium® processor. Starting with the Pentium® processor, a GP exception occurs when an attempt is made to write a one into a reserved bit position of a special register:

  • Attempting to write a one into a reserved bit of CR4.

  • Attempting to write to a reserved bit in an MSR.

  • If CR4[PSE] = 1 (4MB Paging enabled) and the processor detects that any reserved bits in a PDE =1. These bits are checked during a write to CR0, CR3, or CR4.

Exception 14d

Enhanced. The Page Fault exception predates the Pentium® processor. Starting with the Pentium® processor, a Page Fault exception occurs when a one is detected in any of the reserved bits in a PTE or a PDE during linear-to-physical ...

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