ARM的系统模式（system mode）

在ARM v4以后的版本里，ARM核都有7中工作模式：User, FIQ, IRQ, Supervisor, Abort, Undefined,和System。这7中processor mode又分为3类：User mode, Privileged mode和system mode。对于System mode的作用一直有些模糊，今天在arm的网站上找到了一份说明文档，对这个问题的解析很到位，特记录如下：

5.12. System mode
The ARM Architecture defines a User mode that has 15 general purpose registers, a pc, and a CPSR. In addition to this mode there are five privileged processor modes, each of which have an SPSR and a number of registers that replace some of the 15 User mode general purpose registers. 

Note
This section only applies to processors that implement ARM architectures v4, v4T and later.

When a processor exception occurs, the current program counter is copied into the link register