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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1987
Albert Chang, Austin, TX (US);
John Cocke, Austin, TX (US);
Mark F Mergen, Somers, NY (US);
Richard R Oehler, Somers, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for controlling access to data blocks stored by addresses in a memory and concurrently accessible by a plurality of transactions is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving an address of a data block to be accessed by a first transaction, deriving from the address an access table entry corresponding to the data block where the entry includes lock data that governs access to the data block, and providing the access if permitted by the lock data, or providing the access, if not permitted by the lock data, and recording the occurrence of the access in the lock data.