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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2017
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventor:
Jerry W. Stevens, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0607 (2013.01); G06F 3/0637 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 9/5016 (2013.01);
Abstract
Ownership of a memory unit in a data processing system is tracked by assigning an identifier to each software component in the data processing system that can acquire ownership of the memory unit. An ownership variable is updated with the identifier of the software component that acquires ownership of the memory unit whenever the memory unit is acquired.