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<h1class="fqn"><spanclass="in-band">Crate <aclass="mod"href="#">os</a><buttonid="copy-path"onclick="copy_path(this)"title="Copy item path to clipboard"><imgsrc="../clipboard.svg"width="19"height="18"alt="Copy item path"></button></span></h1><spanclass="out-of-band"><aclass="srclink"href="../src/os/main.rs.html#1-79"title="goto source code">source</a> · <aid="toggle-all-docs"href="javascript:void(0)"title="collapse all docs">[<spanclass="inner">−</span>]</a></span></div><detailsclass="rustdoc-toggle top-doc"open><summaryclass="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>The main module and entrypoint</p>
<p>Various facilities of the kernels are implemented as submodules. The most
important ones are:</p>
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<li><ahref="trap/index.html"title="trap"><code>trap</code></a>: Handles all cases of switching from userspace to the kernel</li>
<li><ahref="syscall/index.html"title="syscall"><code>syscall</code></a>: System call handling and implementation</li>
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<p>The operating system also starts in this module. Kernel code starts
executing from <code>entry.asm</code>, after which <ahref="fn.rust_main.html"title="rust_main()"><code>rust_main()</code></a> is called to
initialize various pieces of functionality. (See its source code for
details.)</p>
<p>We then call <ahref="task/fn.run_first_task.html"title="task::run_first_task()"><code>task::run_first_task()</code></a> and for the first time go to
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</div></div><divclass="item-row"><divclass="item-left module-item"><aclass="mod"href="console/index.html"title="os::console mod">console</a></div><divclass="item-right docblock-short"><p>SBI console driver, for text output</p>
</div></div><divclass="item-row"><divclass="item-left module-item"><aclass="mod"href="loader/index.html"title="os::loader mod">loader</a></div><divclass="item-right docblock-short"><p>Loading user applications into memory</p>
