Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Operation of a multi-slice processor implementing exception handling in a nested translation environment
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Application No.: US15138761Application Date: 2016-04-26
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Publication No.: US10042691B2Publication Date: 2018-08-07
- Inventor: Dwain A. Hicks , Jonathan H. Raymond , Shih-Hsiung S. Tung
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Kennedy Lenart Spraggins LLP
- Agent Joseph D. Downing; Robert R. Williams
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F11/07 ; G06F12/10

Abstract:
Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes a plurality of execution slices, a plurality of load/store slices, and one or more translation caches, where operation includes: determining, at the load/store slice, a real address from a cache hit in the translation cache for an effective address for an instruction received at a load/store slice; determining, at the load/store slice, an error condition corresponding to an access of the real address; determining, at the load/store slice, a process type indicating a source of the instruction to be a guest process; and responsive to determining the error condition, initiating, in dependence upon the process type indicating a source of the instruction to be a guest process, an effective address translation corresponding to a cache miss in the translation cache for the effective address for the instruction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170308425A1 OPERATION OF A MULTI-SLICE PROCESSOR IMPLEMENTING EXCEPTION HANDLING IN A NESTED TRANSLATION ENVIRONMENT Public/Granted day:2017-10-26
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