Marvell Asia Pte., Ltd.

Yongsen Chen

Adil Jagmag

Gaurav Arora

Pontus Evert Lidman

Haobo Yu

Yongbing Chen

Ailing Du

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with handling secure interrupts between security zones are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a memory divided between a secure zone and a non-secure zone and storing a plurality of applications. The secure zone provides exclusive access to secure assets of the apparatus. A processor with an interface module configured to, in response to receiving an interrupt request from a requesting application that executes on the processor in the non-secure zone, tunnel the interrupt request into the secure zone of the processor. The non-secure zone and the secure zone are configured as operating environments of the processor with separate security controls. The processor includes a monitor module configured to issue the secure interrupt to a trusted application that is one of the plurality of applications in the secure zone, wherein the trusted application is registered to handle the secure interrupt.

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Shanghai, China

Yongsen Chen