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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:
Feb. 14, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 21, 2020
Applicant:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Inventors:

Timothy Nicholas Hay, Cambridge, GB;

Nathan William Whitaker, Sawston, GB;

Haralds Capkevics, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4818 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 9/45537 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45591 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus comprises an interrupt distributor to distribute virtual interrupts to one or more physical processors, each virtual interrupt to be handled by one of a plurality of virtual processors mappable to said one or more physical processors; and control circuitry to maintain virtual processor interrupt tracking information corresponding to a given virtual processor. The virtual processor interrupt tracking information includes a pending interrupt record tracking which types of virtual interrupts are pending for the given virtual processor, and separate from the pending interrupt record, a pending interrupt status indication indicating a pending interrupt status for the given virtual processor. The pending interrupt status indicates whether the number of pending virtual interrupts for the given virtual processor is zero.


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