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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2010
Michael John Williams, Ely, GB;
Stuart David Biles, Great Barton, GB;
Michael John Williams, Ely, GB;
Stuart David Biles, Great Barton, GB;
ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A processoris provided with a plurality of hardware resources, such as performance monitorsand context pointers. Boundary indicating circuitrystores a boundary value which is programmable and which indicates a boundary position dividing the hardware resources into a first portion and a second portion. Resource control circuitrycontrols access to the hardware resources such that when program execution circuitryis executing a first program it is responsive to a query as to how many off said plurality of hardware resources are present to return a first value whereas when the program execution circuitry is executing a second program it responds to such a query by returning a value corresponding to those hardware resources within the second portion.