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Special x86_64 instructions.
Modules§
- interrupts
- Enabling and disabling interrupts
- port
- Access to I/O ports
- random
- Support for build-in RNGs
- segmentation
- Provides functions to read and write segment registers.
- smap
- This module provides helpers for Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP).
- tables
- Functions to load GDT, IDT, and TSS structures.
- tlb
- Functions to flush the translation lookaside buffer (TLB).
Functions§
- bochs_
breakpoint - Emits a ‘magic breakpoint’ instruction for the Bochs CPU emulator.
- hlt
- Halts the CPU until the next interrupt arrives.
- nop
- Executes the
nopinstructions, which performs no operation (i.e. does nothing). - read_
rip - Gets the current instruction pointer. Note that this is only approximate as it requires a few instructions to execute.