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Read the TimeStamp Counter (RDTSC) Assembly Instruction
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Architecture 2001 - Intel x86-64 OS Internals
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- 1 Class Intro - Architecture 2001: x86-64 OS Internals
- 2 Warm Up: CPUID Instruction
- 3 Intel Processor Execution Modes
- 4 Model Specific Registers
- 5 Privilege Rings & Segmentation - Privilege Rings Start
- 6 Privilege Rings - Segmentation & Segment Registers 1
- 7 Privilege Rings - Segmentation & Segment Registers 2 - Labs: U_SegRegs & K_SegRegs
- 8 Privilege Rings - Segmentation & Segment Registers 3 - Optional: 32-bit Throwback
- 9 Global Descriptor Table (GDT) & Local Descriptor Table (LDT) 1 - Global Descriptor Table Register
- 10 Global Descriptor Table (GDT) & Local Descriptor Table (LDT) 2 - Lab: Look at the GDTR
- 11 Global Descriptor Table (GDT) & Local Descriptor Table (LDT) 3 - Local Descriptor Table Register
- 12 Global Descriptor Table (GDT) & Local Descriptor Table (LDT) 4 - Lab: Look at the LDTR
- 13 Global Descriptor Table (GDT) & Local Descriptor Table (LDT) 5 - GDTR & LDTR: What Did We Learn?
- 14 Privilege Rings - Segment Descriptors 1 - Segment Descriptors
- 15 Privilege Rings - Segment Descriptors 2 - Lab: Hand-parsing GDT Segment Descriptors & Using SwishDbg
- 16 Privilege Rings - Segment Descriptors 3 - What Did We Learn?
- 17 Privilege Rings & Segmentation - Privilege Rings End
- 18 Privilege Rings & Segmentation - Call Gates
- 19 Privilege Rings & Segmentation - A Return To Read(ing) The Fun Manual!
- 20 Privilege Rings & Segmentation - Implicit and Explicit Use of Segmentation
- 21 Privilege Rings & Segmentation - Conclusion
- 22 Interrupts - Interrupts vs. Exceptions
- 23 Interrupts - Software Interrupt Instructions
- 24 Interrupts - Tasks and the Task State Segment (TSS)
- 25 Interrupts - Tasks and the Task State Segment (TSS) - Lab: Examine a 64-bit TSS
- 26 Interrupts - Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT)
- 27 Interrupts - Interrupt Descriptors
- 28 Interrupts - Interrupt Descriptors - Labs: Pearly Interrupt Gates 1 & 2
- 29 Interrupts - Interrupt Descriptors - What Did We Learn?
- 30 Interrupts - Interrupt Masking
- 31 Interrupts - Red Pill and Virtualization Detection
- 32 Interrupts - Conclusion
- 33 System Calls - System Calls Design Background
- 34 System Calls - syscall vs sysenter 32-bit vs. 64-bit Instruction Compatibility
- 35 System Calls - syscall/sysret: x86-64's Preferred System Call Instructions
- 36 System Calls - Visualizing the syscall MSR Usage
- 37 System Calls - Lab: Syscall MSR Investigation
- 38 System Calls - Optional: sysenter/sysexit: x86-32's preferred system call instructions
- 39 System Calls - Syscall-adjacent Tech (swapgs, {rd,wr}{fs,gs}base)
- 40 System Calls - Conclusion
- 41 Read the TimeStamp Counter (RDTSC) Assembly Instruction
- 42 Read the TimeStamp Counter (RDTSC) - Labs: U_Guestimate & U_NavelGaze
- 43 Paging - Paging Introduction
- 44 Paging - Paging and the Control Registers
- 45 Paging - Paging and the Control Registers - Lab: Read the Control Registers
- 46 Paging - Paging and the Control Registers - What Did We Learn?
- 47 Paging - Page Tables - MAXPHYADDR
- 48 Paging - Page Tables - 32 bit Linear to 32 bit Physical, 4KB Pages
- 49 Paging - Page Tables - 32 bit Linear to 32 bit Physical, 4MB Pages
- 50 Paging - Page Tables - 32 bit Linear to 40 bit Physical, Physical Address Extensions (PAE)
- 51 Paging - Page Tables - 48 bit Linear to 52 bit Physical, 4-level Paging, 4KB, 2MB, 1GB Pages
- 52 Paging - Page Tables - (Optional) 57 bit Linear to 52 bit Physical, 5-level Paging
- 53 Paging - Page Table Entries - CR3
- 54 Paging - Page Table Entries - CR3 - Lab: Page Table Walkabout 1
- 55 Paging - Page Table Entries - PML4E
- 56 Paging - Page Table Entries - PML4E - Lab: Page Table Walkabout 2
- 57 Paging - Page Table Entries - PML4E - Lab Example: Page Table Walkabout 2
- 58 Paging - Page Table Entries - Exploit Mitigation Aside: XD, SMEP, SMAP
- 59 Paging - Page Table Entries - PDPTE
- 60 Paging - Page Table Entries - PDPTE - Lab: Page Table Walkabout 3
- 61 Paging - Page Table Entries - PDPTE - Lab Example: Page Table Walkabout 3
- 62 Paging - Page Table Entries - PDE
- 63 Paging - Page Table Entries - PDE - Lab: Page Table Walkabout 4
- 64 Paging - Page Table Entries - PDE - Lab Example: Page Table Walkabout 4
- 65 Paging - Page Table Entries - PTE
- 66 Paging - Page Table Entries - PTE - Lab: Page Table Walkabout 5
- 67 Paging - Page Table Entries - PTE - Lab Example: Page Table Walkabout 5
- 68 Paging - Canonical Addresses
- 69 Paging - Page Faults
- 70 Paging - Page Faults - Lab: Seeing What the Page Fault Handler Sees
- 71 Paging - Page Faults - Misc Points
- 72 Paging - Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)
- 73 Paging - Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) - Shadow Walker Rootkit
- 74 Paging - Non-executable Memory (NX/XD bit)
- 75 Paging - Non-executable Memory (NX/XD bit) - Lab: Checking the kernel's stack execute permissions
- 76 Paging - Non-executable Memory - Lab2: Checking a userspace process' stack execute permissions
- 77 Paging - Conclusion
- 78 Debugging - Software breakpoints
- 79 Debugging - Hardware Breakpoints - Hardware Debug Registers
- 80 Debugging - Hardware Breakpoints - Lab: Checking Debug Registers
- 81 Debugging - Hardware Breakpoints - Lab Walkthrough: Checking Debug Registers in WinDbg
- 82 Debugging - Hardware Breakpoints - Resume Flag (RF)
- 83 Debugging - Hardware Breakpoints - Trap Flag (TF) and Single-Stepping
- 84 Port I/O - Port I/O
- 85 Port I/O - Lab: K_VMWare_PortIO
- 86 Port I/O - CMOS Background
- 87 Port I/O - Lab: K_CMOS_PortIO
- 88 Conclusion - Architecture 2001: x86-64 OS Internals
