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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2016
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Alex Kogan, Needham, MA (US);
Yosef Lev, New York, NY (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Threads using hardware transactions and executing instrumented critical sections that do not perform any writes may complete as long as the thread holding the lock has not yet executed its first write operation. If the thread executing the instrumented critical section performs any writes, or if the thread holding the lock performs any writes during its critical section, the hardware transaction may be aborted. A write flag may be used to determine whether the thread holding the lock performs any writes. The thread holding the lock may set the flag before performing any write operation. The thread executing the hardware transaction may subscribe to that flag and abort the transaction if the flag is set to true, indicating that the thread holding the lock performed a write operation.