System for limiting the size of a local storage of a processor

Details System for limiting the size of a local storage of a processor System for limiting the size of a local storage of a processor

2009-04-24

2010-06-01

Thai, Tuan V (Department: 2185)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Memory configuring

C711S117000, C711S118000, C711S170000, C711S171000, C711S200000, C711S201000, C710S005000, C710S006000, C710S007000, C710S008000, C710S009000, C710S033000, C710S034000, C710S036000, C710S039000, C712S032000, C712S033000, C712S034000, C712S220000, C712S225000, C713S001000, C713S002000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07730279

ABSTRACT:
A system for limiting the size of a local storage of a processor is provided. A facility is provided in association with a processor for setting a local storage size limit. This facility is a privileged facility and can only be accessed by the operating system running on a control processor in the multiprocessor system or the associated processor itself. The operating system sets the value stored in the local storage limit register when the operating system initializes a context switch in the processor. When the processor accesses the local storage using a request address, the local storage address corresponding to the request address is compared against the local storage limit size value in order to determine if the local storage address, or a modulo of the local storage address, is used to access the local storage.

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