Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Host page management using active guest page table indicators
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Application No.: US15212492Application Date: 2016-07-18
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Publication No.: US10176111B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Jonathan D. Bradbury , Michael K. Gschwind , Lisa Cranton Heller , Christian Jacobi , Damian L. Osisek , Anthony Saporito
- 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 ; G06F12/121 ; G06F12/1009
Abstract:
A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of memory is being used by a guest control program to back an address translation structure. The marking capability includes setting an indicator in one or more locations associated with the block of memory. In a further aspect, the marking capability includes an invalidation facility based on the setting of the indicators.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180018280A1 HOST PAGE MANAGEMENT USING ACTIVE GUEST PAGE TABLE INDICATORS Public/Granted day:2018-01-18
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