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No. In fact, that hardware support is mandatory. The SP0 field is used unconditionally on a cross-privilege exception.

Sadly, AMD64 came up with a terrible design for SYSCALL, and an exception right after SYSCALL will not automatically switch stacks. The result is a big mess.




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