# What is trapframe

## Data Structure

```c
// per-process data for the trap handling code in trampoline.S.
// sits in a page by itself just under the trampoline page in the
// user page table. not specially mapped in the kernel page table.
// the sscratch register points here.
// uservec in trampoline.S saves user registers in the trapframe,
// then initializes registers from the trapframe's
// kernel_sp, kernel_hartid, kernel_satp, and jumps to kernel_trap.
// usertrapret() and userret in trampoline.S set up
// the trapframe's kernel_*, restore user registers from the
// trapframe, switch to the user page table, and enter user space.
// the trapframe includes callee-saved user registers like s0-s11 because the
// return-to-user path via usertrapret() doesn't return through
// the entire kernel call stack.
struct trapframe {
  /*   0 */ uint64 kernel_satp;   // kernel page table
  /*   8 */ uint64 kernel_sp;     // top of process’s kernel stack
  /*  16 */ uint64 kernel_trap;   // usertrap()
  /*  24 */ uint64 epc;           // saved user program counter
  /*  32 */ uint64 kernel_hartid; // saved kernel tp
  /*  40 */ uint64 ra;
  /*  48 */ uint64 sp;
  /*  56 */ uint64 gp;
  /*  64 */ uint64 tp;
  /*  72 */ uint64 t0;
  /*  80 */ uint64 t1;
  /*  88 */ uint64 t2;
  /*  96 */ uint64 s0;
  /* 104 */ uint64 s1;
  /* 112 */ uint64 a0;
  /* 120 */ uint64 a1;
  /* 128 */ uint64 a2;
  /* 136 */ uint64 a3;
  /* 144 */ uint64 a4;
  /* 152 */ uint64 a5;
  /* 160 */ uint64 a6;
  /* 168 */ uint64 a7;
  /* 176 */ uint64 s2;
  /* 184 */ uint64 s3;
  /* 192 */ uint64 s4;
  /* 200 */ uint64 s5;
  /* 208 */ uint64 s6;
  /* 216 */ uint64 s7;
  /* 224 */ uint64 s8;
  /* 232 */ uint64 s9;
  /* 240 */ uint64 s10;
  /* 248 */ uint64 s11;
  /* 256 */ uint64 t3;
  /* 264 */ uint64 t4;
  /* 272 */ uint64 t5;
  /* 280 */ uint64 t6;
};
```

`usertrap()` handles an interrupt, exception, or system call from user space. 

Called from `trampoline.S`

## system/kernel/trap


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