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A system call is completed as follows:
- As the function is called, an interrupt of the type “software exception” is placed on the processor,
causing a Context Switch to take place between the calling function and the kernel.
- The exception handler will clear out and save user registers to the kernel stack so that control may be
passed on to the C function corresponding to the syscall.
- The syscall is executed.
- The value(s) returned by the syscall is placed into the correctly corresponding registers of the CPU (the
same ones that a user function normally places its return values in).
- The handler takes this value, restores user registers and returns said value to the user programme that
called it.
Titany answered the question on April 25, 2022 at 13:34
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