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Ring 0 - CPU [0-3] - Stack segment

mguptamel
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‎01-13-2011 03:17 PM
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Hi all,

When CPU switches from Ring-3 to Ring-0, SS is also switched to Ring-0 stack. In a multi-processor environment, if there are N number of CPU's, does each CPU will have it's own Ring-0 stack?

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Gupta
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