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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2012
Applicant:
Nicholas J. Adams, Beaverton, OR (US);
Inventor:
Nicholas J. Adams, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/526 (2013.01);
Abstract
Processing logic and a method to provide single thread access to a specific memory region without suspending processing activity for all other cores and/or threads within or in association with a processor, computer system, or other processing apparatus. Single thread access may be provided through implementation of microcode which may control thread access to model specific registers ('MSRs') within a processor. One MSR may provide a mutex, which a single thread may claim, and another MSR may provide a range of memory locations, which may be accessed by the thread that has claimed the mutex.