Synchronizing a translation lookaside buffer to an extended paging table

US7555628B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Steven M. Bennett · Hillsboro, US
• Andrew V. Anderson · Forest Grove, US
• Gilbert Neiger · Portland, US
• Richard Uhlig · Hillsboro, US
• Dion Rodgers · Hillsboro, US
• Rajesh M. Sankaran · Portland, US
• Camron Rust · Hillsboro, US
• Sebastian Schoenberg · Hillsboro, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 15, 2006
• Grant date: Jun 30, 2009
• Expiry date: May 6, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2212/7201
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A processor including logic to execute an instruction to synchronize a mapping from a physical address of a guest of a virtualization based system (guest physical address) to a physical address of the host of the virtualization based system (host physical address), and stored in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB), with a corresponding mapping stored in an extended paging table (EPT) of the virtualization based system.