Method and apparatus for prefetching data in a computer system

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Architecture based instruction processing

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712207, G06F 938

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ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for prefetching data in a computer system that includes a processor. A prefetch instruction is executed and, in response, data is prefetched from a memory location. It is determined if a memory exception occurred during the prefetching of the data. If a memory exception occurred, the exception is handled if the prefetch instruction indicates to do so.

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