This is a simple demonstration of entering user mode and going back to the kernel on an x86_64 architecture.
Contains the following cases:
- Entering user mode
- Execution of a privileged instruction (General-Protection exception)
- Accessing a supervised page (Page-Fault exception)
- Writing to a read-only page (Page-Fault exception)
- Visual Studio 2022
- QEMU
- A git client to initialize and update submodules
Initialize the git submodule:
git submodule update --init
Open mini-kernel.sln in Visual Studio.
Press F5 to compile and run the application in the QEMU emulator.