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Providing protected access to critical memory regions

US8341369B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Uday Savagaonkar · Redmond, US
Travis T. Schluessler · Hillsboro, US
Hormuzd M. Khosravi · Hillsboro, US
Ravi L. Sahita · Portland, US
Gayathri Nagabhushan · Portland, US
David M. Durham · Beaverton, US

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 23, 2011
Grant date	Dec 25, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 23, 2031

Classification

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

Abstract

In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing 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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