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- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for counting execution of specific instructions and accesses to specific data locations
- Patent Title (中): 用于计数特定指令执行和访问特定数据位置的方法和装置
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Application No.: US10675776Application Date: 2003-09-30
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Publication No.: US07937691B2Publication Date: 2011-05-03
- Inventor: Jimmie Earl DeWitt, Jr. , Frank Eliot Levine , Enio Manuel Pineda , Christopher Michael Richardson , Robert John Urquhart
- Applicant: Jimmie Earl DeWitt, Jr. , Frank Eliot Levine , Enio Manuel Pineda , Christopher Michael Richardson , Robert John Urquhart
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Yee & Associates, P.C.
- Agent David A. Mims, Jr.
- Main IPC: G06F9/44
- IPC: G06F9/44
Abstract:
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions in a data processing system for monitoring the execution of instructions and accesses to memory locations. If an instruction is associated with a indicator, a counter associated with the instruction is incremented in response to detecting execution of the instruction. The indicator may be associated with a memory location with a counter associated with the memory location being incremented in response to an access of the memory location.
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