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Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021

Filed:

May. 27, 2019
Applicant:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Maggie Chan, Toronto, CA;

Philip Ng, Toronto, CA;

Paul Blinzer, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignees:

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC, Markham, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/0875 (2016.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/1668 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 12/0292 (2013.01); G06F 12/0875 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2212/151 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device includes a processor that executes a guest operating system, an input-output memory management unit (IOMMU), and a main memory that stores an IOMMU backing store. The IOMMU backing store includes a separate copy of a set of IOMMU memory-mapped input-output (MMIO) registers for each guest operating system in a set of supported guest operating systems. The IOMMU receives, from the guest operating system, a communication that accesses data in a given IOMMU MMIO register. The IOMMU then performs a corresponding access of the data in a copy of the given IOMMU MMIO register in the IOMMU backing store associated with the guest operating system.


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