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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2007
Philippe Bergheaud, Colmar, FR;
Dinesh Kumar Subhraveti, Milpitas, CA (US);
Marc Philippe Vertes, Saint-Lys, FR;
Philippe Bergheaud, Colmar, FR;
Dinesh Kumar Subhraveti, Milpitas, CA (US);
Marc Philippe Vertes, Saint-Lys, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for providing a process exclusive access to a page including a memory address to which a lock is granted to the process. A request is received for a memory address in a memory device from a requesting process. A lock is granted to the requested memory address to the requesting process. The requesting process is provided exclusive access to a page including the requested memory address for a page access time period. The exclusive access to the page provided to the requesting process is released in response to an expiration of the page access time period.