Method and system for enhanced management operation utilizing in

Details Method and system for enhanced management operation utilizing in Method and system for enhanced management operation utilizing in

1995-02-10

1998-06-09

Kim, Kenneth S.

395568, 395570, 395500, G06F 944

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057649693

ABSTRACT:
A method and system for enhanced system management operations in a superscalar data processing system. Those supervisory level instructions which execute selected privileged operations within protected memory space are first identified as not requiring a full context synchronization. Each time execution of such an instruction is initiated an enable special access (ESA) instruction is executed as an entry point to that instruction or group of instructions. A portion of the machine state register for the data processing system is stored and the machine state register is then modified as follows: a problem bit is set, changing the execution privilege state to "supervisor;" external interrupts are disabled; and access privilege state bit is set; and, a special access mode bit is set, allowing execution of special instructions. The instructions which execute the selected privileged operations within the protected memory space are then executed. A disable special access (DSA) instruction is then executed which restores the bits within the machine state register which were modified during the ESA instruction. The ESA and DSA instructions are implemented without modifying the instruction stream by utilizing user level procedure calls, thereby reducing the overhead of the branch table necessary to determine the desired execution path.

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