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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Jimmy G. Foster, Sr., Morrisville, NC (US);
Sumeet Kochar, Apex, NC (US);
Randolph S. Kolvick, Durham, NC (US);
Makoto Ono, Cary, NC (US);
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
Memory bus attached Input/Output ('I/O') subsystem management in a computing system, the computing system including an I/O subsystem communicatively coupled to a memory bus, including: detecting, by an I/O subsystem device driver, a hibernation request; setting, by the I/O subsystem device driver, a predetermined memory address to a value indicating that the I/O subsystem is not to service system requests; detecting, by the I/O subsystem device driver, that the I/O subsystem device driver has been restarted; and setting, by the I/O subsystem device driver, the predetermined memory address to a value indicating that the I/O subsystem can resume servicing system requests.