Invention Grant
US07865776B2 Adaptive prevention of data loss during continuous event tracing with limited buffer size
有权
在缓冲区大小限制的连续事件跟踪期间自适应防止数据丢失
- Patent Title: Adaptive prevention of data loss during continuous event tracing with limited buffer size
- Patent Title (中): 在缓冲区大小限制的连续事件跟踪期间自适应防止数据丢失
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Application No.: US11923757Application Date: 2007-10-25
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Publication No.: US07865776B2Publication Date: 2011-01-04
- Inventor: Scott Thomas Jones , Frank Eliot Levine , Milena Milenkovic , Enio Manuel Pineda
- Applicant: Scott Thomas Jones , Frank Eliot Levine , Milena Milenkovic , Enio Manuel Pineda
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: The Brevetto Law Group
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00

Abstract:
This invention describes how to avoid data loss due to limited buffer size during continuous tracing of high frequency events such as branches. Buffer data loss is adaptively avoided by either temporarily patching an instruction with a jump to itself or by using delay loops with an adaptive number of iterations during exception handling in which the trace event is written to the buffer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090113450A1 Adaptive Prevention of Data Loss During Continuous Event Tracing with Limited Buffer Size Public/Granted day:2009-04-30
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