When dealing with segmentation in x86, it is *usually* illegal to
attempt to access a segment which has a null selector when in protected
mode and not in 64 bit mode. While this is *almost* true, it is not
actually technically true.
What actually *is* true is that if you *set up* a segment using a null
selector in those circumstances, that segment becomes unusable, and then
tryint to use it causes a fault.
When in real mode, it is perfectly legal to use a null selector to
access memory, since that is just a selector with numerical value 0.
When you then transition into protected mode, the selector would still
be 0 (a null selector), but the segment itself would still be set up
properly and usuable using the base value, limit, and other attributes
it carried over from real mode.
Rather than check if a segment has a null selector while handling
segmentation, it's more correct for us to keep track of whether the
segment is currently usable and check that in the TLB.
Change-Id: Ic2c09e1cfa05afcb03900213b72733545c8f0f4c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/55245
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Bobby Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
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