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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:
May. 10, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2018
Applicant:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Inventor:

Graeme Peter Barnes, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1425 (2013.01); G06F 9/30145 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1052 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus has memory access circuitry to perform a tag-guarded memory access operation in response to a target address. The tag-guarded memory access operation comprises: comparing an address tag associated with the target address with a guard tag stored in a memory system in association with a block of one or more memory locations comprising an addressed location identified by the target address, and generating an indication of whether a match is detected between the guard tag and the address tag. An instruction decoder decodes a multiple guard tag setting instruction to control the memory access circuitry to trigger memory accesses to update the guard tags associated with at least two consecutive blocks of one or more memory locations.


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