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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2019
Memory system, computing system, and methods thereof for cache invalidation with dummy address space
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Andy Rudoff, Boulder, CO (US);
Tiffany J. Kasanicky, Longmont, CO (US);
Wei P. Chen, Portland, OR (US);
Rajat Agarwal, Portland, OR (US);
Chet R. Douglas, Tuscon, AZ (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
According to various aspects, a memory system may include: a memory having a memory address space associated therewith to access the memory; a cache memory assigned to the memory; one or more processors configured to generate a dummy address space in addition to the memory address space, each address of the dummy address space being distinct from any address of the memory address space, and generate one or more invalid cache entries in the cache memory, the one or more invalid cache entries referencing one or more dummy addresses of the dummy address space.