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Normal syscalls also "leverage hardware support for trapping into the kernel". Mmap is usually used because it is a simple way to do 0-copy disk I/O.


i can't think of any other syscall that makes use of tlb caches and page fault machinery to enter the kernel as needed in response to ordinary user space memory access.




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