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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2020
Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Ramacharan Sundararaman, San Jose, CA (US);
Nithyananda Miyar, San Jose, CA (US);
Martin Kovac, Newmarket, CA;
Marvell Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A new approach is proposed to support a hardware-based lock mechanism having a hardware-based lock unit associated with a resource, wherein the lock is utilized by an arbitrator to arbitrate between multiple agents requesting access to the resource. When a first agent requests access to resource in unlocked state, the arbitrator creates a lock ID and set a locked state indicating that the resource is locked. The lock ID is provided to the first agent, which now has exclusive control over the resource. The arbitrator ensures that any agent with the same ID may access the resource. When a second agent requests access to the resource with a lock ID to the arbitrator, it is granted access to the resource if the lock ID provided matches the one stored on the lock unit. If there is a mismatch between the lock IDs, access to the resource is denied.