Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Instructions and logic to provide advanced paging capabilities for secure enclave page caches
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Application No.: US15250787Application Date: 2016-08-29
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Publication No.: US10592421B2Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Carlos V. Rozas , Ilya Alexandrovich , Ittai Anati , Alex Berenzon , Michael A. Goldsmith , Barry E. Huntley , Anton Ivanov , Simon P. Johnson , Rebekah M. Leslie-Hurd , Francis X. McKeen , Gilbert Neiger , Rinat Rappoport , Scott D. Rodgers , Uday R. Savagaonkar , Vincent R. Scarlata , Vedvyas Shanbhogue , Wesley H. Smith , William C. Wood
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/08 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F12/0875 ; G06F12/0808 ; G06F12/1027

Abstract:
Instructions and logic provide advanced paging capabilities for secure enclave page caches. Embodiments include multiple hardware threads or processing cores, a cache to store secure data for a shared page address allocated to a secure enclave accessible by the hardware threads. A decode stage decodes a first instruction specifying said shared page address as an operand, and execution units mark an entry corresponding to an enclave page cache mapping for the shared page address to block creation of a new translation for either of said first or second hardware threads to access the shared page. A second instruction is decoded for execution, the second instruction specifying said secure enclave as an operand, and execution units record hardware threads currently accessing secure data in the enclave page cache corresponding to the secure enclave, and decrement the recorded number of hardware threads when any of the hardware threads exits the secure enclave.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160371191A1 INSTRUCTIONS AND LOGIC TO PROVIDE ADVANCED PAGING CAPABILITIES FOR SECURE ENCLAVE PAGE CACHES Public/Granted day:2016-12-22
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