syscall

System Call

SYSCALL

Fast call to privilege level 0 system procedures.

Details

The System Call instruction fast call to privilege level 0 system procedures.

Pseudocode Operation

// Transfer to OS kernel at MSR[LSTAR]

Example

SYSCALL

Encoding

Binary Layout
0F
+0
05
+1
 
Format System
Opcode 0F 05
Extension System (64-bit)

Operands