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US 2014/0157258 A1Published application
Hardware contiguous memory region tracking
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsEli M. Dow, James P. Gilchrest, Steven K. Schmidt, Jessie Yu
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention relate to performing a scan of a memory region associated with a virtual machine. The scan is performed by a hardware mechanism in response to a call. A data structure that includes information about substrings identified during the scan and a number of replications for each substring is constructed by the hardware mechanism. The data structure is stored by the hardware mechanism at a location determined by the call.
Claims15
1-7. (canceled)
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- a storage device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:
- perform a scan, using a hardware mechanism, of a memory region associated with a virtual machine in response to a call,
- construct a data structure comprising information about substrings identified during the scan and a number of replications for each substring, and
- store the data structure at a location determined by the call.
3 more elements
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code configured for:
- performing a scan of a memory region associated with a virtual machine, the performing by a hardware mechanism in response to a call,
- constructing a data structure comprising information about substrings identified during the scan and a number of replications for each substring, and
- storing the data structure at a location determined by the call.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.