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Keep in mind that the size of the CR3 register remains at 4byte, meaning that a PDPT must be located below 4GiB in physical memory. |
Keep in mind that the size of the CR3 register remains at 4byte, meaning that a PDPT must be located below 4GiB in physical memory. |
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Now we need our Page-Directory |
Now we need our Page-Directory. For the sake of easiness, we'll use PSE. (2 MIB pages mapped in page directory) |
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<source lang="c"> |
<source lang="c"> |
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// 512 entries |
// 512 entries |
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uint64_t page_dir[512] __attribute__((aligned(0x1000))); // must be aligned to page boundary |
uint64_t page_dir[512] __attribute__((aligned(0x1000))); // must be aligned to page boundary |
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uint64_t page_tab[512] __attribute__((aligned(0x1000))); |
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</source> |
</source> |
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===Making it run=== |
===Making it run=== |
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Ok, now we have our structures. |
Ok, now we have our structures. Let's map the first 2 MIB. |
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<source lang="c"> |
<source lang="c"> |
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page_dir_ptr_tab[0] = (uint64_t)&page_dir | 1; // set the page directory into the PDPT and mark it present |
page_dir_ptr_tab[0] = (uint64_t)&page_dir | 1; // set the page directory into the PDPT and mark it present |
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page_dir[0] = |
page_dir[0] = 0b10000011; //Address=0, 2MIB, RW and present |
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</source> |
</source> |
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Ok, let's map the first 2MiB. |
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<source lang="c"> |
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unsigned int i, address = 0; |
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for(i = 0; i < 512; i++) |
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{ |
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page_tab[i] = address | 3; // map address and mark it present/writable |
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address = address + 0x1000; |
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} |
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</source> |
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<source lang="c"> |
<source lang="c"> |
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asm volatile ("movl %%cr4, %%eax; bts $5, %%eax; movl %%eax, %%cr4" ::: "eax"); // set bit5 in CR4 to enable PAE |
asm volatile ("movl %%cr4, %%eax; bts $5, %%eax; movl %%eax, %%cr4" ::: "eax"); // set bit5 in CR4 to enable PAE |
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</source> |
</source> |
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Finally, we'll enable paging. |
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Simply done: |
Simply done: |
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<source lang="c"> |
<source lang="c"> |
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</source> |
</source> |
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PAE |
PAE paging should now be enabled. |
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===Mapping the PD to itself=== |
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In Legacy-Paging this is quite easy. Just map the PD to the last entry of itself. |
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In PAE-Paging we have 4 entries and the PDPT, so how does it work? |
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Depending on where you want to set it you just map all 4 directories into one of those! |
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Example (PD's at end of virtual memory) |
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<source lang="c"> |
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uint64_t * page_dir = (uint64_t*)page_dir_ptr_tab[3]; // get the page directory (you should 'and' the flags away) |
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page_dir[511] = (uint64_t)page_dir; // map pd to itself |
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page_dir[510] = page_dir_ptr_tab[2]; // map pd3 to it |
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page_dir[509] = page_dir_ptr_tab[1]; // map pd2 to it |
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page_dir[508] = page_dir_ptr_tab[0]; // map pd1 to it |
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page_dir[507] = (uint64_t)&page_dir_ptr_tab; /* map the PDPT to the directory |
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</source> |
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Now you can access all structures in virtual memory. Mapping the PDPT into the directory wastes quite much virtual memory as only 32 bytes are used, but if you allocate most/all PDPT's into one page then you can access ALL of them, which can be quite useful. |
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You can also statically allocate the PDPT at boot time, put the 4 page directory addresses in your process struct, and then just write the same PDPT address to CR3 on a context switch after you've |
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patched the PDPT. |
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[[Category:X86 CPU]] |
[[Category:X86 CPU]] |
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[[Category:Tutorials]] |
[[Category:Tutorials]] |
Revision as of 06:41, 16 February 2021
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This page is a work in progress.
This page may thus be incomplete. Its content may be changed in the near future.
This is a guide to setting up paging with PAE enabled. You should read Setting Up Paging first.
Differences between PAE-Paging and Legacy-Paging
- PAE allows you to access more physical memory, which is usually 64GiB (in fact, this is implementation specific).
- A new data structure is added, the so called 'Page-Directory-Pointer-Table'
- An entry is now 8-byte-wide (Legacy: 4-byte), so the number of entries is halved to 512 (Legacy: 1024)
- If the CPU supports it you can use the NoExecute-bit
Setting Up The Data Structures
As mentioned above the 'Page-Directory-Pointer-Table' is added, which contains 4 Page-Directory-Entries
uint64_t page_dir_ptr_tab[4] __attribute__((aligned(0x20))); // must be aligned to (at least)0x20, ...
// ... turning out that you can put more of them into one page, saving memory
Keep in mind that the size of the CR3 register remains at 4byte, meaning that a PDPT must be located below 4GiB in physical memory.
Now we need our Page-Directory. For the sake of easiness, we'll use PSE. (2 MIB pages mapped in page directory)
// 512 entries
uint64_t page_dir[512] __attribute__((aligned(0x1000))); // must be aligned to page boundary
Making it run
Ok, now we have our structures. Let's map the first 2 MIB.
page_dir_ptr_tab[0] = (uint64_t)&page_dir | 1; // set the page directory into the PDPT and mark it present
page_dir[0] = 0b10000011; //Address=0, 2MIB, RW and present
Pages are mapped. Now we have to set the PAE-bit in CR4 and load the PDPT into CR3
asm volatile ("movl %%cr4, %%eax; bts $5, %%eax; movl %%eax, %%cr4" ::: "eax"); // set bit5 in CR4 to enable PAE
asm volatile ("movl %0, %%cr3" :: "r" (&page_dir_ptr_tab)); // load PDPT into CR3
Finally, we'll enable paging. Simply done:
asm volatile ("movl %%cr0, %%eax; orl $0x80000000, %%eax; movl %%eax, %%cr0;" ::: "eax");
PAE paging should now be enabled.