Method and apparatus for handling locks

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/ – Access locking

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C711S163000

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06922745

ABSTRACT:
A method and device for determining an attribute associated with a locked load instruction and selecting a lock protocol based upon the attribute of the locked load instruction. Also disclosed is a method for concurrently executing the respective lock sequences associated with multiple threads of a processing device.

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