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Providing protected access to critical memory regions

US8099574B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 27, 2006
Grant dateJan 17, 2012
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Expiry dateMar 13, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F12/145
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Hardware of a virtualized processor based system detecting a specified type of memory access to an identified region of memory and in response to the detecting generating an interrupt for a virtual machine monitor (VMM) of the virtualized processor based system.

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