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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
May. 25, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Kenneth D. Johnson, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan E. Lange, Bellevue, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Preventing the observation of the side effects of mispredicted speculative execution flows using restricted speculation. In an embodiment a microprocessor comprises a register file including a plurality of entries, each entry comprising a value and a flag. The microprocessor (i) sets the flag corresponding to any entry whose value results from a memory load operation that has not yet been retired or cancelled, or results from a calculation that was derived from a register file entry whose corresponding flag was set, and (ii) clears the flag corresponding to any entry when the operation that generated the entry's value is retired. The microprocessor also comprises a memory unit that is configured to hold any memory load operation that uses an address whose value is calculated based on a register file entry whose flag is set, unless all previous instructions have been retired or cancelled.