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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1999
Korbin S. Van Dyke, Sunol, CA (US);
Paul H. Hohensee, Nashua, NH (US);
David L. Reese, Westborough, MA (US);
John S. Yates, Jr., Needham, MA (US);
T. R. Ramesh, Newark, CA (US);
Shalesh Thusoo, Milpitas, CA (US);
Gurjeet Singh Saund, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen C. Purcell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Niteen Aravind Patkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Korbin S. Van Dyke, Sunol, CA (US);
Paul H. Hohensee, Nashua, NH (US);
David L. Reese, Westborough, MA (US);
John S. Yates, Jr., Needham, MA (US);
T. R. Ramesh, Newark, CA (US);
Shalesh Thusoo, Milpitas, CA (US);
Gurjeet Singh Saund, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen C. Purcell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Niteen Aravind Patkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
ATI International SRL, Christ Church, BB;
Abstract
A method and a computer for performance of the method. While executing a program on a computer, profileable events occurring in the instruction pipeline are detected. The instruction pipeline is directed to record profile information describing the profileable events essentially concurrently with the occurrence of the profileable events. The detecting and recording occur under control of hardware of the computer without software intervention.