Intel Pentium CPU Instruction Set Reference

LAR instruction - Load Access Rights Byte

Code	Mnemonic	Description
0F 02 / r	LAR r16, r/m16	Loads r/m16 masked by FF00H into r16
0F 02 / r	LAR r32, r/m32	Loads r/m32 masked by 00FxFF00H into r32

Description

Loads the access rights from the segment descriptor specified by the second operand (source operand) into the first operand (destination operand) and sets the ZF flag in the EFLAGS register. The source operand (which can be a register or a memory location) contains the segment selector for the segment descriptor being accessed. The destination operand is a general-purpose register.

The processor performs access checks as part of the loading process. Once loaded in the destination register, software can perform additional checks on the access rights information.

When the operand size is 32 bits, the access rights for a segment descriptor include the type and DPL fields and the S, P, AVL, D/B, and G flags, all of which are located in the second double-word (bytes 4 through 7) of the segment descriptor. The doubleword is masked by 00FXFF00H before it is loaded into the destination operand. When the operand size is 16 bits, the access rights include the type and DPL fields. Here, the two lower-order bytes of the doubleword are masked by FF00H before being loaded into the destination operand.

This instruction performs the following checks before it loads the access rights in the destination register:

• Checks that the segment selector is not null.
• Checks that the segment selector points to a descriptor that is within the limits of the GDT or LDT being accessed
• Checks that the descriptor type is valid for this instruction. All code and data segment descriptors are valid for (can be accessed with) the LAR instruction. The valid system segment and gate descriptor types are given in the following table.
• If the segment is not a conforming code segment, it checks that the specified segment descriptor is visible at the CPL (that is, if the CPL and the RPL of the segment selector are less than or equal to the DPL of the segment selector).

If the segment descriptor cannot be accessed or is an invalid type for the instruction, the ZF flag is cleared and no access rights are loaded in the destination operand.

The LAR instruction can only be executed in protected mode.

Operands	Bytes	Clocks
r16, r16	3	8	NP
r32, r32	3	8	NP
r16, m16	3	8	NP
r32, m32	3	8	NP

Flags

ID	unaffected	DF	unaffected
VIP	unaffected	IF	unaffected
VIF	unaffected	TF	unaffected
AC	unaffected	SF	unaffected
VM	unaffected	ZF	sets to 1 if the access rights are loaded successfully; otherwise, it is cleared to 0
RF	unaffected	AF	unaffected
NT	unaffected	PF	unaffected
IOPL	unaffected	CF	unaffected
OF	unaffected

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