- IDs. "
SYSENTER".
OSDev wiki.
Archived from the
original on 8
November 2023.
Anonymous (19
December 2002). "Linux 2.5 gets vsyscalls,
sysenter support"...
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provide instructions (e.g.
SYSENTER) to
invoke selected kernel services without an interrupts.
Visit https://wiki.osdev.org/
SYSENTER for more information....
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widely used in real mode. In
protected mode, INT is
still available but
SYSENTER/SY****IT or SYSCALL/SYSRET is more
commonly used due to
efficiency reasons...
- to 16-bit user-mode code.) The SYSRET,
SYSENTER and SY****IT
instructions are
unavailable in Real mode. (
SYSENTER is, however,
available in
Virtual 8086...
- pointer.
Initialized during system startup,
SYSENTER_EIP_MSR and
SYSENTER_ESP_MSR are used by the
SYSENTER (Intel) or
SYSCALL (AMD)
instructions to achieve...
- 64-bit mode (not in
compatibility mode), and
allows SYSENTER/SY****IT in both modes. AMD64
lacks SYSENTER/SY****IT in both sub-modes of long mode.: 33 In 64-bit...
- call gates. With the
introduction of x86
instructions for
system call (
SYSENTER/SY****IT by
Intel and SYSCALL/SYSRET by AMD), a new
faster mechanism was...
- KiSystemService. For
newer versions,
different mechanisms making use of
SYSENTER instruction and in x86-64
SYSCALL instruction are used instead. One notable...
-
Model 1)
processors only, EDX bit 11 is
invalid - the bit is set, but the
SYSENTER and SY****IT
instructions are not
supported on the
Pentium Pro.
FCMOV and...
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without use of a call gate",
published 1999-09-07, ****igned to Intel "
SYSENTER and SY****IT are ****embly-language
instructions that may be
executed on...
