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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:
Oct. 04, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2020
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Toby Opferman, Beaverton, OR (US);

Prashant Sethi, Folsom, CA (US);

Abhimanyu K. Varde, Portland, OR (US);

Barry E. Huntley, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Michael W. Chynoweth, Placitas, NM (US);

Jason W. Brandt, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30145 (2013.01); G06F 9/30043 (2013.01); G06F 9/3865 (2013.01); G06F 9/30036 (2013.01); G06F 9/30112 (2013.01); G06F 9/3879 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to an instruction for operating system transparent instruction state management of new instructions for application threads are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes a decoder to decode a single instruction into a decoded single instruction, and an execution circuit to execute the decoded single instruction to cause a context switch from a current state to a state comprising additional state data that is not supported by an execution environment of an operating system that executes on the hardware processor.


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