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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kevin Lopes, Wallkill, NY (US);

Deanna P. D. Berger, Hyde Park, NY (US);

Jason D Kohl, Austin, TX (US);

Robert J Sonnelitter, III, Mount Vernon, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/084 (2016.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/084 (2013.01); G06F 3/062 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 2212/622 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for secure storage protection for memory operations are provided. Aspects include providing a drawer comprising a plurality of clusters, each of the plurality of clusters comprising a plurality of processors, wherein each of the plurality of clusters share a first cache memory, providing a cluster shared cache integrated circuit to manage a second cache memory shared among the plurality of clusters, providing a system memory associated with each of the plurality of clusters, receiving, by a memory controller, a memory operation request from one of the plurality of processors, wherein the memory operation includes a store command, and wherein the memory controller is configured to perform the memory operation and atomically write a secure storage key for the memory operation with the store command of the memory operation.


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