Interrupt padding

[stonedzealot]

I was looking at the source for Mr. Xsism's beautiful IDT Kernel, and noticed that all of his interrupt calls were prefaced with

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     pusha
     push ds
     push es
     push fs
     push gs
     mov eax,0x10    ; Data segment
     mov ds,eax
     mov es,eax

and of course finished with the appropriate pop statements and an iret. Is this code necessary for the interrupt to function?

[Pype.Clicker]

an interrupt might occur anywhere anytime. As you wish to make it transparent to the interrupted process, you *must* make the registers saved before any interrupt-related process starts and restored after. Otherwise, the interrupted process could see its internal variables changed randomly (not good at all) ...

[stonedzealot]

ouch! that sucks! Thanks alot, pype