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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
May. 01, 2009
Gil Tene, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Michael A. Wolf, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cliff N. Click, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Gil Tene, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Michael A. Wolf, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cliff N. Click, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Azul Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a processor configured to: initiate atomic execution of a plurality of instruction units in a thread, starting with a beginning instruction unit in the plurality of instruction units, wherein the plurality of instruction units in the thread are not programmatically specified to be executed atomically; detect an atomicity terminating event during atomic execution of the plurality of instruction units, wherein the atomicity terminating event is triggered by a memory access by another processor; and commit at least some of the one or more memory modification instructions. The system further includes a memory coupled to the processor, configured to provide the processor with the plurality of instruction units.