Servicing multiple counters based on a single access check
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJANE H. BARTIK, JONATHAN D. BRADBURY, DANIEL V. ROSA, DONALD W. SCHMIDT
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Abstract
A system and method for implementing a servicing instruction for a plurality of counters that includes determining a counter set based on the servicing instruction, whether access is authorized to the counter set, and a block of storage in a memory based on the service instruction. In response to the determining that the access is authorized, the system and method extracts the plurality of counters within the counter set in response to the determining that the access is authorized and storing the plurality of counters in the block of storage.
Claims6
A method of implementing a servicing instruction for a plurality of counters, the method comprising:
- determining, by a processor, a counter set based on the servicing instruction;
- determining, by the processor, whether access is authorized to the counter set;
- determining, by the processor, a block of storage in a memory based on the service instruction and in response to the determining that the access is authorized;
- extracting, by the processor, the plurality of counters within the counter set in response to the determining that the access is authorized;
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- storing, by the processor, the plurality of counters in the block of storage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.