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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Khandker N. Adeeb, Austin, TX (US);
Steven J. Battle, Austin, TX (US);
Brandon R. Goddard, Friendswood, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Tu-An T. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Nicholas R. Orzol, Austin, TX (US);
Brian D. Victor, Austin, TX (US);
Brendan M. Wong, Beaumont, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes a plurality of execution slices and a plurality of load/store slices, where the load/store slices are coupled to the execution slices via a results bus. Operation of such a multi-slice processor includes: capturing first state information corresponding to a first set of control signals; monitoring state information of a plurality of logical components of the multi-slice processor; selecting, in dependence upon one or more selection criteria and upon the monitored state information, a second set of control signals; and capturing second state information corresponding to the second set of control signals, wherein the first set of control signals is different than the second set of control signals.