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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Christian Borntraeger, Stuttgart, DE;
Claudio Imbrenda, Boeblingen, DE;
Fadi Y. Busaba, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Jonathan D. Bradbury, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Lisa Cranton Heller, Rhinebeck, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is provided by a secure interface control of a computer that provides a partial instruction interpretation for an instruction which enables an interruption. The secure interface control fetches a program status word or a control register value from a secure guest storage. The secure interface control notifies an untrusted entity of guest interruption mask updates. The untrusted entity is executed on and in communication with hardware of the computer through the secure interface control to support operations of a secure entity executing on the untrusted entity. The secure interface control receives, from the untrusted entity, a request to present a highest priority, enabled guest interruption in response to the notifying of the guest interruption mask updates. The secure interface control moves interruption information into a guest prefix page and injecting the interruption in the secure entity when an injection of the interruption is determined to be valid.