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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 08, 2015
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventor:

Adriaan Van De Ven, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/109 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/109 (2013.01); G06F 8/54 (2013.01); G06F 9/44521 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 12/0284 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1016 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01); G06F 2212/151 (2013.01); G06F 2212/657 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1225 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques to prelink software to improve memory de-duplication in a virtual system are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, a memory unit coupled to the processor circuit to store private memory pages for multiple virtual machines, and a dynamic linker application operative on the processor circuit to link a binary version of a software program with associated program modules at run-time of the binary version on a virtual machine. The dynamic linker application may comprise a master prelink component operative on the processor circuit to relocate a first set of program modules for a first binary version of the software program for a first virtual machine using a first set of virtual memory addresses from a first private memory page allocated to the first virtual machine, and store relocation information for the first set of program modules in a global prelink layout map for use by a second virtual machine. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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