I'm Multitasking! (not sure why :) )

[Cjmovie]

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 //PUSH ds, es, fs, gs / POP gs, fs, es, ds
*Stack-- = 0x10; //DS
*Stack-- = 0x10; //ES
*Stack-- = 0x10; //FS
*Stack-- = 0x10; //GS

to:

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 //PUSH ds, es, fs, gs / POP gs, fs, es, ds
*Stack-- = 0x10; //DS
*Stack-- = 0x10; //ES
*Stack-- = 0x10; //FS
*Stack = 0x10; //GS

I just noticed if I press continue, it will call my ISR, allowing me to see all the values in the dump offset by exactly one DWORD. So this fixes that.

Now another problem (I'm getting tired of having to ask questions/sorry for asking so many):

When it gets called, it never gets called again. It seems interrupts somehow got disabled or something.
The only thing is that I added an inline "sti" to the loop of both tasks, and it still won't return to the handler again.

Any ideas?

[proxy]

in the C handler send an EOI...

iirc it is outb(0x20, 0x20)

good luck

proxy

[Cjmovie]

Lol, I figured that out about...5 minutes ago.

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I'm so happy! I figured it out myself! (well, the answer to THAT problem, at least)
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I'd like to thank you, proxy, and everyone else. My first multi-thread (not task, as it's all in the same address space...) OS.

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Yay!
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[proxy]

one thing about your threads stack is you forgot that stacks are _pre_ decrement, not post so the correct code (which would have avoided your second to last problem) would be:

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*--stack = 0x10;
*--stack = 0x10;
*--stack = 0x10;
*--stack = 0x10;

etc etc

and doing so also eliminates the need to do these 2 lines of code:

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TaskList[a].esp0--;              //Offset kernel stack into actual 4kb page

TaskList[a].esp3--;              //Offset user/app stack into actual 4kb page

good luck and nice to see you got it working.

proxy

[samuelgoto]

I am having the same problem. Did you found the solution for this problem ? I am probably at the same point as you ( trying to implement multitasking with ring3->ring0 stack based task switch ).

If you did, please, give me a hint on how to debug ( since it is probably an assimetry between pushs and pops, loading garbage on a descriptor ) ...

[Cjmovie]

What same problem? And, I've yet to think about RING3 processes; I'm working on Driver Interfaces.....