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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 1977
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1976
Richard Eugene Birney, Boca Raton, FL (US);
William Steese Osborne, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Lynn Allan Graybiel, Boca Raton, FL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A control circuit arrangement for storing the addressability defined by the current active address key (AAK) being accessed in an address key register (AKR) in a processor. This AAK is stored in a last AAK register. When a hard or soft check interrupt occurs, the AAK stored in the last AAK register is designated as the processor's last key saved (i.e. LKSA) to define an interrupted addressability being used by the processor at the time of an interrupt. Upon occurrence of an interrupt, the LSKA represents the interrupted addressability, which is then made available to the processor by gating the LKSA into a source operand key section in the AKR from the processor's last AAK register, and setting the key for a supervisor program into another section of the AKR, so that the supervisor program can take corrective or termination actions. Until the LKSA gating into the AKR is completed, no AAK can be ingated into the last AAK register. After this in gating to the AKR is completed, the ingating disablement to the last AAK register is released.