Intel Corporation

Intel IP Corporation

Stephen J Robinson

Jason W Brandt

Vedvyas Shanbhogue

Christopher D Bryant

Joseph Nuzman

Christopher J Hughes

Yen-Cheng Liu

David A Koufaty

Robert S Chappell

Stephen R Van Doren

Beeman C Strong

Jonathan D Combs

Niall D McDonnell

Jared Warner Stark, Iv

Samantika S Sury

Peter Lachner

Doddaballapur N Jayasimha

Jonas Svennebring

Gilbert A Neiger

Hong Wang

Per H Hammarlund

Daniel Cutter

Gautham N Chinya

Ron Gabor

Venkateswara Rao Madduri

Dan Baum

Perry H Wang

Tsvika Kurts

James Edward Phillips

Jose Niell

James D Allen

Peggy J Irelan

Itamar S Kazachinsky

Jonathan Jay Tyler

Deepak A Mathaikutty

Deepak Limaye

Mukesh Patel

Thiam Wah Loh

Eckhard Delfs

Vikash Agarwal

Andreas Wasserbauer

Reza Fortas

Chee Weng Tan

Swee Chong Peter Kuan

Daniel F Cutter

Mukesh K Patel

Jose S Niell

A processor includes a widest set of data registers that corresponds to a given logical processor. Each of the data registers of the widest set have a first width in bits. A decode unit that corresponds to the given logical processor is to decode instructions that specify the data registers of the widest set, and is to decode an atomic store to memory instruction. The atomic store to memory instruction is to indicate data that is to have a second width in bits that is wider than the first width in bits. The atomic store to memory instruction is to indicate memory address information associated with a memory location. An execution unit is coupled with the decode unit. The execution unit, in response to the atomic store to memory instruction, is to atomically store the indicated data to the memory location.

Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to atomically store to memory data wider than a natively supported data width

Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to microarchitectural mechanisms for the prevention of side-channel attacks are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a processor core includes an instruction fetch circuit to fetch instructions; a branch target buffer comprising a plurality of entries that each include a thread identification (TID) and a privilege level bit; and a branch predictor, coupled to the instruction fetch circuit and the branch target buffer, to predict a target instruction corresponding to a branch instruction based on at least one entry of the plurality of entries in the branch target buffer, and cause the target instruction to be fetched by the instruction fetch circuit.

Microarchitectural mechanisms for the prevention of side-channel attacks using a thread identification (TID) and a privilege level bit

Techniques to allow use of metadata in unused bits of virtual addresses are described. A processor of an aspect includes a decode circuit to decode a memory access instruction. The instruction to indicate one or more memory address operands that are to have address generation information and metadata. An execution circuit coupled with the decode circuit to generate a 64-bit virtual address based on the one or more memory address operands. The 64-bit virtual address having a bit, an X-bit address field starting at a bitto store an address generated from the address generation information, and one or more metadata bits to store the metadata. The execution circuit also to perform a canonicality check on the 64-bit virtual address that does not fail due to non-canonical values of the metadata stored in the one or more metadata bits. Other processors, methods, systems, and instructions are disclosed.

64-bit virtual addresses having metadata bit(s) and canonicality check that does not fail due to non-canonical values of metadata bit(s)

Disclosed embodiments relate to spatial and temporal merging of remote atomic operations. In one example, a system includes an RAO instruction queue stored in a memory and having entries grouped by destination cache line, each entry to enqueue an RAO instruction including an opcode, a destination identifier, and source data, optimization circuitry to receive an incoming RAO instruction, scan the RAO instruction queue to detect a matching enqueued RAO instruction identifying a same destination cache line as the incoming RAO instruction, the optimization circuitry further to, responsive to no matching enqueued RAO instruction being detected, enqueue the incoming RAO instruction; and, responsive to a matching enqueued RAO instruction being detected, determine whether the incoming and matching RAO instructions have a same opcode to non-overlapping cache line elements, and, if so, spatially combine the incoming and matching RAO instructions by enqueuing both RAO instructions in a same group of cache line queue entries at different offsets.

Spatial and temporal merging of remote atomic operations

Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to microarchitectural mechanisms for the prevention of side-channel attacks are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a processor includes a core having a plurality of physical contexts to execute a plurality of threads, a plurality of structures shared by the plurality of threads, a context mapping structure to map context signatures to respective physical contexts of the plurality of physical contexts, each physical context to identify and differentiate state of the plurality of structures, and a context manager circuit to, when one or more of a plurality of fields that comprise a context signature is changed, search the context mapping structure for a match to another context signature, and when the match is found, a physical context associated with the match is set as an active physical context for the core.

Microarchitectural mechanisms for the prevention of side-channel attacks

Apparatuses, methods, and systems relating to memory disambiguation are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a decoder to decode an instruction into a decoded instruction, an execution unit to execute the decoded instruction, a retirement unit to retire an executed instruction in program order, and a memory disambiguation circuit to allocate an entry in a memory disambiguation table for a first load instruction that is to be flushed for a memory ordering violation, the entry comprising a counter value and an instruction pointer for the first load instruction.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems for memory disambiguation

An apparatus having a fabric interconnect that supports multiple topologies and method for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises mode memory to store information indicative of one of the plurality of modes; and a first fabric operable in a plurality of modes, where the fabric comprises logic coupled to the mode memory to control processing of read and write requests to memory received by the first fabric according to the mode identified by the information indicative.

Coherent fabric interconnect for use in multiple topologies

A first operation associated with a request for a page miss handler may be identified. A second operation associated with a current execution of the page miss handler may also be identified. An age of the first operation and an age of the second operation may be determined. The page miss handler may be interrupted based on the age of the first operation and the age of the second operation by stopping the current execution of the page miss handler for the second operation and starting execution of the page miss handler for the first operation.

Interruption of a page miss handler

Systems and methods for employing hardware-assisted virtualization for implementing a secure video output path. An example processing system comprises: a memory; a shared interconnect; and a processing core communicatively coupled to the memory via the shared interconnect, the processing core to: initialize a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine; responsive to receiving a memory access transaction initiated by the first virtual machine to access a memory buffer, tag the memory access transaction with an identifier of the first virtual machine; and responsive to receiving a digital content decoder access transaction initiated by the second virtual machine, tag the digital decoder access transaction with an identifier of the second virtual machine.

Hardware-assisted virtualization for implementing secure video output path

A processing device implementing tracking of deferred data packets in a debug trace architecture is disclosed. The processing device is to determine an order number corresponding to an order in which an instruction was executed relative to other executed instructions that correspond to an instruction type within a sequence of executed instructions, identify a first data packet corresponding to a first packet type and sequentially ordered, according to the order number, with respect to data packets of the first packet type within a data trace log, identify a second data packet corresponding to a second packet type and sequentially ordered, according to the order number, with respect to data packets of the second packet type within the data trace log, and map the identified first and second data packets to the instruction, wherein at least one of the first or second data packets was generated post-retirement of the instruction.

Tracking deferred data packets in a debug trace architecture

In one embodiment, a processor includes an access logic to determine whether an access request from a virtual machine is to a device access page associated with a device of the processor and if so, to re-map the access request to a virtual device page in a system memory associated with the VM, based at least in part on information stored in a control register of the processor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Enabling virtualization of a processor resource

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Stephen J Robinson