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Venturing into 64-bit mode

Venturing into 64-bit mode. Examining the steps needed to take the processor into IA-32e mode -- and then back out again. Two-Level Translation Scheme. PAGE TABLES. PAGE DIRECTORY. PAGE FRAMES. CR3. Four-Level Translation Scheme. PAGE DIRECTORY POINTER TABLES.

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Venturing into 64-bit mode

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  1. Venturing into 64-bit mode Examining the steps needed to take the processor into IA-32e mode -- and then back out again

  2. Two-Level Translation Scheme PAGE TABLES PAGE DIRECTORY PAGE FRAMES CR3

  3. Four-Level Translation Scheme PAGE DIRECTORY POINTER TABLES PAGE MAP LEVEL 4 TABLES PAGE FRAMES PAGE DIRECTORIES PAGE TABLES CR3

  4. 2-level address-translation • The CPU examines any virtual address it encounters, subdividing it into three fields 31 22 21 12 11 0 index into page-directory index into page-table offset into page-frame 10-bits 10-bits 12-bits This field selects one of the 1024 array-entries in the Page-Directory This field selects one of the 1024 array-entries in that Page-Table This field provides the offset to one of the 4096 bytes in that Page-Frame

  5. 4-level address-translation • The CPU examines any virtual address it encounters, subdividing it into five fields 63 48 47 39 38 30 29 21 20 12 11 0 sign- extension index into level 4 page-map table index into page- directory pointer table index into page- directory index into page-table offset into page-frame 16-bits 9-bits 9-bits 9-bits 9-bits 12-bits Any 48-bit virtual-address is sign-extended to a 64-bit “canonical” address Only “canonical” 64-bit virtual-addresses are legal in 64-bit mode

  6. Format of a Page-Directory entry 31 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 PAGE-TABLE BASE ADDRESS AVAIL 0 P S 0 A P C D P W T U W P LEGEND P = Present (1=yes, 0=no) W = Writable (1 = yes, 0 = no) U = User (1 = yes, 0 = no) A = Accessed (1 = yes, 0 = no) PS = Page-Size (0=4KB, 1 = 4MB) PWT = Page Write-Through (1=yes, 0 = no) PCD = Page Cache-Disable (1 = yes, 0 = no)

  7. Format of 64-bit table-entries 63 62 52 51 40 39 32 E X B avl Reserved (must be 0) Page-frame physical base-address [39..32] 31 12 11 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Page-frame physical base-address[31..12] avl A P C D P W T U W P Meaning of these bits varies with the table Legend: P = Present (1=yes, 0=no) PWT = Page Cache Disable (1=yes, 0=no) W = Writable (1=yes, 0=no) PWT = Page Write-Through (1=yes, 0=no) U = User-page (1=yes, 0=no) avl = available for user-defined purposes A = Accessed (1=yes, 0=no) EXB = Execution-disabled Bit (if EFER.NXE=1)

  8. Extended Feature Enable Register • This Model-Specific Register (MSR) was introduced in the AMD64 architecture and perpetuated by EM64T (for compatibility) 63 11 10 8 0 N X E L M A L M E S C E Legend: SCE = SysCall/sysret is Enabled (1=yes, 0=no) LME = Long-Mode is Enabled (1=yes, 0=no) LMA = Long-Mode is Active (1=yes, 0=no) NXE = Non-eXecutable pages Enabled (1=yes, 0=no) NOTE: The MSR address-index for EFER = 0xC0000080, and this register is accessed using RDMSR or WRMSR instructions

  9. RDMSR and WRMSR • An assembly language code-fragment to turn on the LME-bit (‘Long-Mode’ Enable): # Each Model-Specific Register (MSR) is 64-bits wide and has a unique # 32-bit address-index which is first placed into register ECX. Then the # least-significant 32-bits of that MSR is accessed using register EAX, # while the most-significant 32-bits is accessed using register EDX. mov $0xC0000080, %ecx # setup EFER address-index rdmsr # read EFER into (EDX,EAX) bts $8, %eax # set the LME-bit’s image to 1 wrmsr # write (EDX,EAX) into EFER # NOTE: RDMSR and WRMSR must be executed at ‘Ring0’ privilege-level.

  10. Control Registers CR4 and CR0 31 13 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 V M X E 0 0 O S X M M E x O S F X C R P C E P G E M C E P A E P S E D E T S D P V I V M E Control Register CR4 31 0 P G C D N W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A M 0 W P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N E E T T S E M M P P E Control Register CR0 Legend (for 64-bit mode): PE = Protected-mode Enabled (1=yes, 0=no) PG = Paging Enabled (1=yes, 0=no) PAE = Page-Addressing Extensions (1=enabled, 0=disabled)

  11. Segment-Descriptor Format 63 32 Base[31..24] (if L=0) G D L A V L Limit [19..16] (if L=0) P D P L S X C / D R / W A Base[23..16] (if L=0) Base[15..0] (if L=0) Limit[15..0] (if L=0) 31 0 Legend:DPL = Descriptor Privilege Level (0..3) G = Granularity (0 = byte, 1 = 4KB-page) P = Present (0 = no, 1 = yes) D = Default size (0 = 16-bit, 1 = 32-bit) S = System (0 = yes, 1 = no) X = eXecutable (0 = no, 1 = yes) A = Accessed (0 = no, 1 = yes) code-segments: R = Readable (0 = no, 1 = yes) C = Conforming (0=no, 1=yes) data-segments: W = Writable (0 = no, 1 = yes) D = expands-Down (0=no, 1=yes) L = Long-mode (i.e., 64-bit addressing) (0=no, 1=yes) AVL = Available for user’s purposes

  12. IA-32e Call-Gate descriptor 127 96 Reserved (must be 0) offset[63..32] offset[63..32] offset[31..16] Base[31..24] (if S=0) G D L A V L P D P L 0 X Gate Type (=1100) C / D R / W Reserved (must be 0) code-segment selector offset[15..0] 31 0 We can use a call-gate to ‘jump’ from 16-bit code-segment to a 64-bit code-segment

  13. Summary of steps • Transition from real-mode to IA-32e mode: • Build the table of global descriptors • Load GDTR with pseudo-descriptor for GDT • Build the 4-level page-mapping tables • Enable IA-32e mode (set EFER.LME=1) • Enable Page-Address Extensions (CR4.PAE) • Load Level4 page-map table address in CR3 • Activate IA-32e mode (CR0.PE and CR0.PG) • Transfer via call-gate to 64-bit code-segment

  14. Notes on the transition • Code-segment must be “identity-mapped” • Interrupts have to be temporarily disabled • All memory-addressing in 64-bit mode via CS, SS, DS or ES uses 0 as base-address (and checking of segment-limits is omitted)

  15. For a return to ‘real-mode’ • Processor must enter 16-bit code-segment in ‘compatibility-mode’ via indirect far jump • Load segment-registers DS, ES, and SS with ‘writable’ 16-bit segment-selectors (64K-limit) • Code-segment has to be “identity-mapped” • Deactivate IA-32e mode by clearing PG-bit • Leave ‘protected-mode’ by clearing PE-bit • Reload registers CS and SS with real-mode segment-addresses before enabling interrupts

  16. Demo-program: ‘inandout.s’ • We created a demo-program that starts in ‘real-mode’, enters 64-bit mode and draws a message, jumps to ‘compatibility mode’ and draws another message, then returns to real-mode and shows a final message • It has to write directly to VRAM when it’s not executing in real-mode – because the ROM-BIOS routines use real-style code

  17. How text-mode VRAM works • The video memory resides at 0x000B8000 and in text-mode it is organized as a linear array of two-byte elements (i.e., ‘words’): • Array-elements are arranged in “row-major” order (left-to-right, top-to-bottom) 15 8 7 0 Attribute-code for the foreground and background colors Ascii code for character

  18. Default color-programming 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Blinking 0 Red 0 Green 0 Blue 1 Intense 1 Red 1 Green 1 Blue 1 BACKCOLOR FORECOLOR

  19. Character-cell screen-locations 80 cells-per-row 25 rows for (row 0, column 0) the address-offset is (0*80+0)*2 for (row 2, column 79) the address-offset is (2*80+79)*2 for (row 24, column 40) the address-offset is (24*80+40)*2

  20. In-class exercise #1 • Can you modify the message-colors used in our ‘inandout.s’ demo-program so that: • the first message is bright-red against white • the second message is brown against cyan • The final message is magenta against black

  21. In-class exercise #2 • Can you modify the ‘inandout.s’ program so that it ‘skips’ entering 64-bit mode: i.e., so it transfers directly from real-mode to ‘compatibility’ mode, prints its confirmation message, and then transfers back to ‘real-mode’ to show a final message? real-mode 64-bit mode compatibility mode

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