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35 .Nd return path to user-mode execution
40 .Fn userret "struct lwp *l"
44 function is executed after processing a trap
45 .Pq e.g., a system call or interrupt
46 before returning to user-mode execution.
47 The implementation is machine dependent and is never invoked from
48 machine-independent code.
49 The function prototype for each architecture may be different to the
50 prototype above, however the functionally provided by the
52 function on each architecture is essentially the same.
56 function performs the following procedure:
57 .Bl -bullet -offset indent
59 Detect a change in the signal disposition of the current process and invoke
61 to post the signal to the process.
62 This may occur when the outcome of the trap or syscall posted a signal
64 .Pq e.g., invalid instruction trap .
68 flag to see if the scheduler requires the current process to be
71 .Pq see Xr cpu_need_resched 9 .
72 This may occur if the clock interrupt causes the scheduler to
73 determine that the current process has completed its time slice.
75 Update the scheduler state.
78 .Xr cpu_need_resched 9 ,