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Userland
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:16 am
by gmoney
Does anyone know any good tut out there for switching to user land and back to kernel land?
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:20 am
by JamesM
It's not difficult to switch from user land to kernel land. The difficulty comes the other way round.
switching from user land to kernel land
syscalls are typically implemented using an interrupt service routine hook - set up eax,ebx,ecx etc to pass paramters then interrupt. The kernel handles the interrupt as a 'syscall'.
The other way is more difficult and involves an IRET to change the CPL. (current privilege level)
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:15 pm
by JackScott
The following from osdever.net might be useful:
http://www.osdever.net/tutorials/soft_ts.php