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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2016
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yury Baskakov, Newton, MA (US);
Alexander Garthwaite, Hamilton, MA (US);
Jesse Pool, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0662 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 2212/151 (2013.01); G06F 2212/65 (2013.01); G06F 2212/656 (2013.01);
Abstract
One or more embodiments provide techniques for accessing a memory page of a virtual machine for which loading might have been deferred, according to an embodiment of the invention, includes the steps of examining metadata of the memory page and determining that a flag in the metadata for indicating that the contents of the memory page needs to be updated is set, and updating the contents of the memory page.