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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2005
Alexander C. Klaiber, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kevin J. Mcgrath, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Hongwen Gao, Union City, CA (US);
Alexander C. Klaiber, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kevin J. McGrath, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Hongwen Gao, Union City, CA (US);
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
In one embodiment, a processor is configured to operate in a first mode in which privilege level protection is disabled and paging is enabled. In another embodiment, a method is contemplated including intercepting a write to a control register by a guest executing in a processor; determining that the write attempts to establish a first mode in the processor in which privilege level protection is disabled and paging is disabled; and causing the guest to execute in a second mode in which privilege level protection is disabled and paging is enabled instead of the first mode. A computer accessible medium comprising instruction implementing at least a portion of the method is also described.