Also called "supervisor mode," the kernel mode enables the OS (kernel) to execute "privileged instructions," which access the hardware directly. Applications run in the more restricted user mode.

perfmon says that 'Kernel Current URIs Cached = 2 (average) and that 'Output Cache Current Items' = 3000-4000 (average) I think that this means that almost all of the objects are in the User Mode ...

User-mode WireGuard has been available in FreeBSD since 2019 and remains unaffected. If you pkg install wireguard, you get user-mode WireGuard, better known as wireguard-go.

To capture hypervisor pages or user-mode memory pages in a live kernel memory dump, you may use live kernel memory dump file options available under the Task Manager settings.

Following the massive Windows outage in July caused by a defective CrowdStrike update, Microsoft is working on a way to allow security products to ‘run in user mode just as apps do,’ Microsoft ...

"When cheat programs operate in kernel space, they can make their cheat functionally invisible to anti-cheat solutions that live in user-mode.