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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2018
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kirk D. Brannock, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Barry E. Huntley, Hillsboro, OR (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Sant Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques to detect an access request to access a computing resource while in a system management mode (SMM), determine a bit of a lock register is set to enable access to a bitmap associated with the computing resource, the bitmap to indicate an access policy for the computing resource, and determine whether the access request violate the access policy set in the bitmap. Embodiments may also include performing the access request if the access request does not violate the access policy, and causing a fault if the access request does violate the access policy.