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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2008
Dan F. Greiner, San Jose, CA (US);
Lisa C. Heller, Rhinebeck, NY (US);
Damian L. Osisek, Vestal, NY (US);
Erwin Pfeffer, Petermichaiweg, DE;
Donald W. Schmidt, Stone Ridge, NY (US);
Jaya Srikrishnan, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Charles F. Webb, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Leslie W. Wyman, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Dan F. Greiner, San Jose, CA (US);
Lisa C. Heller, Rhinebeck, NY (US);
Damian L. Osisek, Vestal, NY (US);
Erwin Pfeffer, Petermichaiweg, DE;
Donald W. Schmidt, Stone Ridge, NY (US);
Jaya Srikrishnan, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Charles F. Webb, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Leslie W. Wyman, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product for providing a shared memory translation facility. The method includes receiving a request for access to a memory address from a requestor at a configuration, the receiving at a shared memory translation mechanism. It is determined if the memory address refers to a shared memory object (SMO), the SMO accessible by a plurality of configurations. In response to determining that the memory address refers to the SMO, it is determined if the configuration has access to the SMO. In response to determining that the configuration has access to the SMO, the requestor is provided a system absolute address for the SMO and access to the SMO. In this manner direct interchange of data between the plurality of configurations is allowed.