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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2008
Gad Sheaffer, Haifa, IL;
Shlomo Raikin, Geva Carmel, IL;
Vadim Bassin, Raanana, IL;
Ehud Cohen, Kiryat Motskin, IL;
Oleg Margulis, Haifa, IL;
Gad Sheaffer, Haifa, IL;
Shlomo Raikin, Geva Carmel, IL;
Vadim Bassin, Raanana, IL;
Ehud Cohen, Kiryat Motskin, IL;
Oleg Margulis, Haifa, IL;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing a memory model for hardware attributes to support transactional execution is herein described. Upon encountering a load of a hardware attribute, such as a test monitor operation to load a read monitor, write monitor, or buffering attribute, a fault is issued in response to a loss field indicating the hardware attribute has been lost. Furthermore, dependency actions, such as blocking and forwarding, are provided for the attribute access operations based on address dependency and access type dependency. As a result, different scenarios for attribute loss and testing thereof are allowed and restricted in a memory model.