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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Mohit Gupta, San Diego, CA (US);
Harb Abdulhamid, Durham, NC (US);
Zhixiong Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing operating system independent error control in computing devices. One embodiment is a method comprising: defining with a reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) controller a first memory region for correctable errors and a second memory region for uncorrectable errors; receiving an error indication at the RAS controller; determining with the RAS controller whether the received error indication is a correctable error; and in response to the determination, if the received error indication is a correctable error, writing with the RAS controller information about the correctable error to the first memory region, and if the received error indication is an uncorrectable error, writing with the RAS controller information about the uncorrectable error to the second memory region and sending an interrupt request from the RAS controller to an operating system executing on a processor.