CPU Registers x86

General Purpose Registers

32 bit	16 bit	8 high bit	8 low bit	description
eax	ax	ah	al	accumulator
ebx	bx	bh	bl	base
ecx	cx	ch	cl	counter
edx	dx	dh	dl	data

Segment Registers

16 bit	description
cs	code segment
ds	data segment
es	extra segment
ss	stack segment
fs	f' segment
gs	g' segment

Index Registers

32 bit	16 bit	description
esi	si	source index
edi	di	destination index

Pointer Registers

32 bit	16 bit	description
ebp	bp	base pointer
esp	sp	stack pointer
eip		instruction pointer

EFLAGS Register

bit	label	description
0	cf	carry flag
2	pf	parity flag
4	af	auxiliary flag
6	zf	zero flag
7	sf	sign flag
8	tf	trap flag
9	if	interrupt flag
10	df	direction flag
11	of	overflow flag
12-13	iopl	i/o priviledge level
14	nt	nested task flag
16	rf	resume flag
17	vm	virtual 8086 mode flag
18	ac	alignment check flag
19	vif	virtual interrupt flag
20	vip	virtual interrupt pending
21	id	id flag

Control Registers

CR0

bit	label	description
0	pe	protected mode enable
1	mp	monitor co-processor
2	em	emulation
3	ts	task switched
4	et	extension type
5	ne	numeric error
16	wp	write protect
18	am	alignment mask
29	nw	not-write through
30	cd	cache disable
31	pg	paging

NOTE that this register is the only control register that can be written and read via 2 ways unlike the other that can be accessed only via the MOV instruction

;way 1:
;write:
mov cr0,reg
;read:
mov reg,cr0 
;----------------------
;way 2:
;write:
lmsw reg

;read:
smsw reg

CR1

Reserved, the cpu will throw a #ud exeption when trying to access them.

CR2

bit	label	description
0-31	pfla	page fault linear address

CR3

bit	description	PAE mode	long mode
0-31	physical base address of page directory	base of PDPT	base of PML4T

Note that this must be page aligned

CR4

bit	label	description
0	vme	virtual 8086 mode extensions
1	pvi	protected mode virtual interrupts
2	tsd	time stamp disable
3	de	debugging extensions
4	pse	page size extension
5	pae	physical address extension
6	mce	machine check exception
7	pge	page global enable
8	pce	performance monitoring counter enable
9	osfxsr	os support for fxsave and fxrstor instructions
10	osxmmexcpt	os support for unmasked simd floating point exceptions
13	vmxe	virtual machine extensions enable
14	smxe	safer mode extensions enable
17	pcide	pcid enable
18	osxsave	xsave and processor extended states enable
20	smep	supervisor mode executions protection enable
21	smap	supervisor mode access protection enable

CR5 - CR7

Reserved, same case as CR1.

Debug Registers

DR0 - DR3

Contain linear addresses of up to 4 breakpoints. If paging is enabled, they are translated to physical addresses.

DR6

It permits the debugger to determine which debug conditions have occurred. When an enabled debug exception is enabled, low order bits 0-3 are set before entering debug exception handler.

DR7

bit	description
0	local DR0 breakpoint
1	global DR0 breakpoint
2	local DR1 breakpoint
3	global DR1 breakpoint
4	local DR2 breakpoint
5	global DR2 breakpoint
6	local DR3 breakpoint
7	global DR3 breakpoint
16-17	conditions for DR0
18-19	size of DR0 breakpoint
20-21	conditions for DR1
22-23	size of DR1 breakpoint
24-25	conditions for DR2
26-27	size of DR2 breakpoint
28-29	conditions for DR3
30-31	size of DR3 breakpoint

A local breakpoint bit deactivates on hardware task switches, while a global does not.
00b condition means execution break, 01b means a write watchpoint, and 11b means an R/W watchpoint. 10b is reserved for I/O R/W (unsupported).

Test Registers

name	description
TR3 - TR5	undocumented
TR6	test command register
TR7	test data register

Protected Mode Registers

GDTR

bits	label	description
0-15	limit	(size of GDT) - 1
16-47	base	starting address of GDT

Stores the segment selector of the GDT.

LDTR

bits	label	description
0-15	limit	(size of LDT) - 1
16-47	base	starting address of LDT

Stores the segment selector of the LDT.

IDTR

bits	label	description
0-15	limit	(size of IDT) - 1
16-47	base	starting address of IDT

Stores the segment selector of the IDT.