Kernel Glossary

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System Calls

References

Videos

Syscalls and Strace
What Have Syscalls Done for you Lately?
MAD24 315 Rethinking the kernel system call entry
Linux ABI - Syscalls in Assembly and Calling Assembly from C
For x86-64 syscall/sysret instruction, see videos in Arch2001 and its full playlist.