JOS——Lab 3

Answer the following questions in your answers-lab3.txt:

1. What is the purpose of having an individual handler function foreach exception/interrupt? (i.e., if all exceptions/interrupts weredelivered to the same handler, what feature that exists inthe current implementation could not be provided?)
2. Did you have to do anything to make the user/softint program behave correctly?The grade script expects it to produce a general protectionfault (trap 13), butsoftint's code saysint $14.Why should this produce interrupt vector 13?What happens if the kernel actually allowssoftint'sint $14 instruction to invoke the kernel's page fault handler(which is interrupt vector 14)?

问题一：

不同的异常的处理方式不同，需要的参数不同；因此，每个中断/异常需要有自己的处理函数；如果没有的话，在当前的实现情况下不能辨别到底是发生了什么样的异常。

问题二：

Executing the INT n instruction when the CPL is greater than the DPL of the referenced interrupt, trap, or task gate. （Intel技术手册233页）。当CPL是3（用户级别），但是我调用的INT n 指令的特权级别是0（内核级别），因此出现保护性错误。如果允许直接调用INT 14（缺页中断），则用户可以不经过内核的检查允许而自己分配内存，这是个很大的漏洞。

3. The break point test case will either generate a break pointexception or a general protection fault depending on how you initializedthe break point entry in the IDT (i.e., your call toSETGATE from trap_init). Why?How do you need to set it up in order to get the breakpoint exceptionto work as specified above and what incorrect setup wouldcause it to trigger a general protection fault?
4. What do you think is the point of these mechanisms,particularly in light ofwhat the user/softint test program does?

问题三：

产生general protection异常的原因是在设置IDT时将break point的特权级别设置为来0（内核级别），因此由用户来访问时肯定会发生保护错误。将其设置为3，则保护错误会消失。

问题四：

softint不允许用户直接产生保护了内核，防止收到恶性攻击；而break point的机制给开发人员提供了便利，但是却不会引发恶性的攻击。