Re: Fighting cfint (academic quwstion)

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

The Special Registers 0 through 3 (SPRG0-3) are 64-bit registers. They are 
provided for general operating system use and can only be read/set in 
supervisor mode. SPRG1 contains the address of the currently
executing task, which in turn has forwards/backwards links to all 
other tasks. Now, how  does one get the contents of SPRG1?
The active chain is indirectly pointed to from the Node Address 
Communications Area (NACA), which contains pointers to various 
system objects. The NACA is located at a fixed real address of 
'8000000000004000'. There is a lot more to this story, but here
is not the place.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com>
To: <MI400@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 3:44 PM
Subject: RE: Fighting cfint (academic quwstion)


> In theory one would think you are correct. Since CFINT01 is implemented in
> code one should be able to get around it. However, CFINT01 is a strange
> task. It shows up in WRKSYSACT as a task, but I can't find a TDE for it in
> SST. I can find other tasks, but not CFINT01. I'd bet IBM changed SST to
> prevent CFINT from showing up.
> 
> Does anyone know how to access the Task Dispatch List itself? I can see
> entries from SST, but I want to see the hex in the TDL itself. CFINT01
> _must_ be in there for it to run, but I can't find the TDL. Any ideas? An
> address would be great? Or an offset in the MISR or NACA


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