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user mode

The restricted way the processor runs ordinary programs: they can compute and use their own memory, but cannot touch devices or other programs directly.

User mode (ring 3 on x86-64, EL0 on ARM64, U-mode on RISC-V) is the unprivileged processor mode in which application code runs; privileged instructions and protected memory fault, and services are requested from the kernel by system call.

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