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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Giles R. Frazier, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Karl Gschwind, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Younes Manton, Toronto, CA;
Karl M. Taylor, Kanata, CA;
Brian W. Thompto, Austin, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for managing memory is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method includes specifying a first load-monitored region within a memory, configuring a performance monitor to count object pointer accessed events associated with the first load-monitored region, executing a CPU instruction to load a pointer that points to a first location in the memory, responsive to determining that the first location is within the first load-monitored region, triggering an object pointer accessed event, updating a count of object pointer accessed events in the performance monitor, and performing garbage collection on the first load-monitored region based on the count of object pointer accessed events.