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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2002
Steve Bennett, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Andrew V. Anderson, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Erik Cota-robles, Portland, OR (US);
Stalinselvaraj Jeyasingh, Portland, OR (US);
Alain Kagi, Portland, OR (US);
Gilbert Neiger, Portland, OR (US);
Richard Uhlig, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Michael A. Kozuch, Export, PA (US);
Steve Bennett, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Andrew V. Anderson, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Erik Cota-Robles, Portland, OR (US);
Stalinselvaraj Jeyasingh, Portland, OR (US);
Alain Kagi, Portland, OR (US);
Gilbert Neiger, Portland, OR (US);
Richard Uhlig, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Michael A. Kozuch, Export, PA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a command pertaining to one or more portions of a register is received from guest software. Further, a determination is made as to whether the guest software has access to all of the requested portions of the register based on indicators within a mask field that correspond to the requested portions of the register. If the guest software has access to all of the requested portions of the register, the command received from the guest software is executed on the requested portions of the register.