Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Marking storage keys to indicate memory used to back address translation structures
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Application No.: US15212462Application Date: 2016-07-18
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Publication No.: US10176110B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Jonathan D. Bradbury , Michael K. Gschwind
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
- Agent Steven Chiu, Esq.; Blanche E. Schiller, Esq.
- Main IPC: G06F12/10
- IPC: G06F12/10 ; G06F12/1027 ; G06F12/1009
Abstract:
A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of memory is backing an address translation structure of a control program being managed by a virtual machine manager. By providing the marking, the virtual machine manager may check the indication prior to making paging decisions. With this information, a hint may be provided to the hardware to be used in decisions relating to purging associated address translation structures, such as translation look-aside buffer (TLB) entries.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180018279A1 MARKING STORAGE KEYS TO INDICATE MEMORY USED TO BACK ADDRESS TRANSLATION STRUCTURES Public/Granted day:2018-01-18
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