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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
May. 27, 2010
Applicants:
Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy, Austin, TX (US);
Mark William Stephenson, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy, Austin, TX (US);
Mark William Stephenson, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, system, and computer usable program product for tolerating soft errors by selective duplication are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An application executing in a data processing system, selects an instruction that has to be protected from soft errors. The instruction is marked for duplication such that the instruction is duplicated during execution of the instruction. The marked instruction is sent for execution to a hardware front end.