Crate x86
Source - apic
- Register information and driver to program xAPIC, X2APIC and I/O APIC
- bits16
- Data structures and functions used by 16-bit mode.
- bits32
- Data structures and functions used by 32-bit mode.
- bits64
- Data structures and functions used by IA-32e but not Protected Mode.
- controlregs
- Functions to read and write control registers.
See Intel Vol. 3a Section 2.5, especially Figure 2-7.
- cpuid
- Support for the CPUID instructions.
- current
- A short-cut to the architecture (bits32 or bits64) this crate was compiled for.
- debugregs
- Functions to read and write debug registers.
- dtables
- Functions and data-structures for working with descriptor tables.
- fence
- Intel fence instructions
- io
- I/O port functionality.
- irq
- Shared interrupt description and set-up code.
See the
bits*::irq modules for arch-specific portions. - msr
- MSR value list and function to read and write them.
- random
- Instructions to generate random bits directly from the hardware (RDRAND and RDSEED).
- segmentation
- Functionality to manipulate segment registers, build segement
descriptors and selectors.
- task
- Helpers to program the task state segment.
See Intel 3a, Chapter 7
- time
- Functions to read time stamp counters on x86.
- tlb
- Functions to flush the translation lookaside buffer (TLB).
- vmx
- Data structures and definitions used by Virtual Machine Extensions.
- fs_deref
- “Dereferences” the fs register at
offset. - gs_deref
- “Dereferences” the gs register at
offset. - int
- Generate a software interrupt.
This is a macro argument needs to be an immediate.
- syscall
- Ring
- x86 Protection levels
- halt⚠
- Stops instruction execution and places the processor in a HALT state.
- rdpid⚠
- Read Processor ID