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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2021
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Eric Kunze, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jared Corey Smolens, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aaron DeBattista, Cambridge, GB;
Elliot Maurice Simon Rosemarine, London, GB;
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to apparatus comprising execution circuitry comprising at least one execution unit to execute program instructions, and control circuitry. The control circuitry receives a stream of processing instructions, and issues each received instruction to one of said at least one execution unit. Responsive to determining that a first type of context switch is to be performed from an initial context to a new context, issuing continues until a pre-emption point in the stream of processing instructions is reached. Responsive to reaching the pre-emption point, state information is stored, and the new context is switched to. Responsive to determining that a context switch is to be performed to return from the new context to the initial context, the processing status is restored from the state information, and the stream of processing instructions is continued.