instruction for issuing calls to an operating system, see System call. A Supervisor Call instruction (SVC) is a hardware instruction used by the System/360...
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successors, a Supervisor Call instruction (SVC), with the number in the instruction rather than in a register, implements a system call for legacy facilities...
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factor compensator IBM SAN Volume Controller Supervisor Call instruction, a mainframe computer instruction Support-vector clustering, similar to support...
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Macro (computer science) (redirect from Macro instruction)
terminated in either a branch and link register instruction to call a routine, or a supervisor call instruction to call an operating system function directly....
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Protection ring (redirect from Supervisor mode)
run DLL code at ring 2 instead of at ring 3 Segment descriptor Supervisor Call instruction System Management Mode (SMM) Principle of least privilege E.g...
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Virtual memory (section Paging supervisor)
(fixing which is performed without resorting to a time-consuming Supervisor Call instruction). Multics used the term "wired". OpenVMS and Windows refer to...
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a variant of supervisor, a traditional term for the kernel of an operating system: the hypervisor is the supervisor of the supervisors, with hyper- used...
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IBM System/360 architecture (redirect from Load Program Status Word instruction)
A Supervisor Call interruption: 80.1–81 occurs as the result of a Supervisor Call instruction; the system stores bits 8-15 of the SVC instruction as...
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is set by the user mode trap instruction, also called a Supervisor Call instruction.[original research?] This instruction sets the mode bit, and branches...
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successors is done typically using a LINK macro instruction containing a Supervisor Call instruction that activates the operating system routines that...
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The x86 instruction set refers to the set of instructions that x86-compatible microprocessors support. The instructions are usually part of an executable...
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Execute Channel Program in Real Storage (category System calls)
Real Storage (EXCPVR) is a macro generating a system call, implemented as a Supervisor Call instruction, for low-level device access, where the programmer...
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Channel Program (EXCP) is a macro generating a system call, implemented as a Supervisor Call instruction, for low-level device access, where the programmer...
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PDP-10 (section Supervisor mode)
are two operational modes, supervisor and user mode. Besides the difference in memory referencing described above, supervisor-mode programs can execute...
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for application programmer convenience. EXCP issues an SVC (supervisor call instruction) that directs the operating system to issue the START IO on the...
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ARM architecture family (redirect from Arm instruction set)
processor accepts an interrupt. Supervisor (svc) mode: A privileged mode entered whenever the CPU is reset or when an SVC instruction is executed. Abort mode:...
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accomplished using an MVS emulator that intercepted system calls at the Supervisor Call instruction (SVC) level. Most third-party applications ran in this...
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IBM 1130 (section Supervisor Control Records)
execution of a job, only a resident monitor, called the Skeleton Supervisor, resides in memory. This Supervisor requires just 1020 bytes, so a task's first...
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RISC-V (category Instruction set architectures)
supports five modes: machine, supervisor, user, supervisor-under-hypervisor and user-under-supervisor. The privileged instruction set specification explicitly...
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Central processing unit (redirect from Instruction decoder)
important processor in a given computer. Its electronic circuitry executes instructions of a computer program, such as arithmetic, logic, controlling, and input/output...
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Control register (redirect from Supervisor mode execution protection)
"supervisor" state, and should be invisible to regular programs. It operates with the privileged XSAVES and XRSTORS instructions by adding supervisor state...
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The Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction, sometimes called the Oklahoma State School Superintendent, is the chief executive officer for...
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appendages and synchronously as an extension of ATS/360's Type 1 Supervisor Call instruction (SVC 255), OS Nucleus control section IGC255. Thereby, ATS/360...
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Very long instruction word (VLIW) refers to instruction set architectures that are designed to exploit instruction-level parallelism (ILP). A VLIW processor...
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Clipper architecture (category Instruction set architectures)
containing external interrupt enable, user/supervisor mode, and address translation control bits. User and supervisor modes has separate banks of integer registers...
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Instruction of Amenemope (also called Instructions of Amenemopet, Wisdom of Amenemopet) is a literary work composed in Ancient Egypt, most likely during...
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X86 assembly language (section Instruction types)
next_line into eax (32-bit code): call next_line next_line: pop eax Writing to the instruction pointer is simple — a jmp instruction stores the given target address...
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Power ISA (redirect from IBM Power Instruction Set Architecture)
supervisor instructions used for embedded applications. It is derived from the former PowerPC Book E. Book VLE – Variable Length Encoded Instruction Architecture...
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The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least...
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their more task-specific GPT systems, including models fine-tuned for instruction following—which in turn power the ChatGPT chatbot service. The term "GPT"...
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