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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Giles R. Frazier, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Karl Gschwind, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Christian Jacobi, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Chung-Lung K. Shum, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Joran S. C. Siu, Thornhill, CA;
Timothy J. Slegel, Staatsburg, NY (US);
Zhong L. Wang, Markham, CA;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to lightweight interrupts for condition checking. An aspect includes determining, by a condition checker in a computer system, that a condition occurs for an application executing on the computer system. Another aspect includes, based on determining that the condition occurs for the application, determining whether lightweight interrupts are enabled. Yet another aspect includes based on determining that lightweight interrupts are enabled, issuing a lightweight interrupt to the application and handling the instruction by the application.