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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1991
Clifford O Hayden, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Robert J Hurban, Rye, NY (US);
Donald W McCauley, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
John S Murdock, Jr, New Fairfield, CT (US);
Susan B Stillman, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An improved error recovery system in which all operations which the Central Processor performs are categorized into one of a plurality of recovery types. The determination of category is made based on which architected and machine dependent facilities they manipulate and the manner in which the facilities are manipulated. This classification of instructions into types allows for the amount of checkpoint data to be minimized while allowing recovery to be generalized into broad algorithms instead of handling each operation independently. Furthermore, by applying this classification technique to various phases of execution (recovery windows) of instructions which modify system facilities before they complete, these instructions can also be retried with a minimum of hardware and algorithms.