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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Inventors:
Chen Tian, Union City, CA (US);
Daniel G. Waddington, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 12/1027 (2013.01);
Abstract
Memory management includes maintaining a first mapping structure for each thread of a multi-threaded process. A second mapping structure is maintained for each core of a multi-core processing device. A global mapping structure for shared memory mappings is maintained. During thread context switches, copying thread context entries without modifying a page-mapping base address register of each core of the multi-core processing device.