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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
William H Schwartz, Delray Beach, FL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for allowing multiple tasks to share virtual memory areas, in a memory management system for a computer, uses a data structure which maintains a list of address spaces shared by more than one task. For each entry in this list, a list of slots in virtual address space is maintained in the data structure, where each slot contains indications that said shared memory was mapped into a task. An offset table of directory pages is also maintained, and each entry in this directory points to a directory page for a task. The directory page entries for all of such directory pages points to a page table entry. An entry in each of the offset tables points to the entry in the list of shared address spaces for this set.