/* bkerndev - Bran's Kernel Development Tutorial * By: Brandon F. (friesenb@gmail.com) * Desc: Global Descriptor Table management * * Notes: No warranty expressed or implied. Use at own risk. */ /* Defines a GDT entry */ struct gdt_entry { unsigned short limit_low; unsigned short base_low; unsigned char base_middle; unsigned char access; unsigned char granularity; unsigned char base_high; } __attribute__((packed)); struct gdt_ptr { unsigned short limit; unsigned int base; } __attribute__((packed)); /* Our GDT, with 3 entries, and finally our special GDT pointer */ struct gdt_entry gdt[3]; struct gdt_ptr gp; /* This is in start.asm. We use this to properly reload * the new segment registers */ extern void _gdt_flush(); /* Setup a descriptor in the Global Descriptor Table */ void gdt_set_gate(int num, unsigned long base, unsigned long limit, unsigned char access, unsigned char gran) { /* Setup the descriptor base address */ gdt[num].base_low = (base & 0xFFFF); gdt[num].base_middle = (base >> 16) & 0xFF; gdt[num].base_high = (base >> 24) & 0xFF; /* Setup the descriptor limits */ gdt[num].limit_low = (limit & 0xFFFF); gdt[num].granularity = ((limit >> 16) & 0x0F); /* Finally, set up the granularity and access flags */ gdt[num].granularity |= (gran & 0xF0); gdt[num].access = access; } /* Should be called by main. This will setup the special GDT * pointer, set up the first 3 entries in our GDT, and then * finally call gdt_flush() in our assembler file in order * to tell the processor where the new GDT is and update the * new segment registers */ void gdt_install() { /* Setup the GDT pointer and limit */ gp.limit = (sizeof(struct gdt_entry) * 3) - 1; gp.base = &gdt; /* Our NULL descriptor */ gdt_set_gate(0, 0, 0, 0, 0); /* The second entry is our Code Segment. The base address * is 0, the limit is 4GBytes, it uses 4KByte granularity, * uses 32-bit opcodes, and is a Code Segment descriptor. * Please check the table above in the tutorial in order * to see exactly what each value means */ gdt_set_gate(1, 0, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0x9A, 0xCF); /* The third entry is our Data Segment. It's EXACTLY the * same as our code segment, but the descriptor type in * this entry's access byte says it's a Data Segment */ gdt_set_gate(2, 0, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0x92, 0xCF); /* Flush out the old GDT and install the new changes! */ _gdt_flush(); }