Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Ok. If you have tested on a wide variety of machines then I won't
> worry about it.
>
> I guess if a cr0 write has always been synchronizing things should be
> a safe practice. The practical danger is if you write to cr0 and the
> pipeline is not flushed and the segment loads might execute as 16bit
> mode segment register loads. I think this is more of a 486 or 586/Pentium
> danger actually then a 386 one.
Writes to CR0 are synchronizing and are documented as such. This is a
fairly trivial consequence of it invoking microcode on every x86 ever
created.
> Hmm. I'm not certain about enabling protected mode but enabling paging
> at least does appear to be documented to require a jump, before the P6
> core. Which may be why it is recommended for initializing protected
> mode.
Enabling paging is possibly a different matter. I can't speak on that
particular subject with any authority.
-hpa
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