Re: Various x86 syscall mechanisms

[Bill Davidsen]

Roland McGrath wrote:
> > As far as I can work out, an x86_32 kernel will use "int 0x80" and 
> > "sysenter" for system calls.  64-bit kernel will use just "syscall" for 
> > 64-bit processes (though you can use "int 0x80" to access the 32-bit 
> > syscall interface from a 64-bit process), but will allow "sysenter", 
> > "syscall" or "int 0x80" for 32-on-64 processes.
>
> That is correct, with the caveats below.
Thanks for setting this out clearly, I've seen most of it (from Andi, I 
think) in bits, and one of the scheduler folk had a comment relevant to 
scheduling which I can't find now, but this is both technical and 
historical, and thus a nice thing to hand to someone with a related 
question.

Well done.

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