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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
May. 04, 2023
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert S. Chappell, Portland, OR (US);
Jason W. Brandt, Austin, TX (US);
Alan Cox, Abertawe, GB;
Asit Mallick, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joseph Nuzman, Haifa, IL;
Arjan Van De Ven, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of instructions are detailed herein including one or more of 1) a branch fence instruction, prefix, or variants (BFENCE); 2) a predictor fence instruction, prefix, or variants (PFENCE); 3) an exception fence instruction, prefix, or variants (EFENCE); 4) an address computation fence instruction, prefix, or variants (AFENCE); 5) a register fence instruction, prefix, or variants (RFENCE); and, additionally, modes that apply the above semantics to some or all ordinary instructions.