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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:
Dec. 18, 2001

Filed:

May. 04, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Douglas Craig Bossen, Austin, TX (US);

Kevin Arthur Chiarot, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Namratha Rajasekharaiah Jaisimha, Austin, TX (US);

Avijit Saha, Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/208 ; G06F 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/208 ; G06F 1/100 ;
Abstract

A method of handling a cache error (such as a parity error), which allows a software recovery, by reporting the error using an unrelated system resource, such as an interrupt service, and particularly a data storage interrupt. The parity error can be reported by generating a data storage interrupt and using the data storage interrupt status register (DSISR) to indicate that the data storage interrupt is a result of the parity error. The context of the processor can be fully synchronized while handling the parity error.


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