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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:
Oct. 21, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 17, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Shakti Kapoor, Austin, TX (US);

Nelson Wu, Austin, TX (US);

Manoj Dusanapudi, Bangalore, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/33 (2020.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01); G06F 115/10 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/33 (2020.01); G06F 9/30058 (2013.01); G06F 9/3851 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 9/3806 (2013.01); G06F 9/3818 (2013.01); G06F 2115/10 (2020.01); G06F 2212/1008 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system, mechanism, tool, programming product, processor, and/or method for generating a hazard in a processor includes: identifying one or more cache lines to invalidate in a second level memory of a processing core in the processor; invalidating, in response to identifying one or more cache lines to invalidate in the second level cache, the one or more identified cache lines in the second level memory; and invalidating, in response to invalidating the one or more identified cache lines in the second level memory, the corresponding one or more cache lines in a first level memory. In an aspect the hazard generating mechanism is triggered, preferably on demand, and includes in an approach searching for cache lines in the second level memory that are also in the first level memory.


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