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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2018
Applicant:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventor:
Matthew Lucien Evans, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/10 (2016.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 16/2282 (2019.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2212/657 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for locating metadata associated with a first address. The method comprises: accessing a page table structure, a page table entry of said page table structure providing address translation data for use in an address translation process for translating said first address into a second address; extracting () portions of at least two page table entries in the page table structure, determining () a pointer to a metadata table from said portions, and using () the pointer to locate from the metadata table target metadata associated with the first address.