Method and apparatus for two-layer copy-on-write
Abstract
A system, apparatus and method are provided in which a range of virtual memory addresses and a copy of that range are mapped to the same first system address range in a data processing system until an address in the virtual memory address range, or its copy, is written to. The common system address range includes a number of divisions. Responsive to a write request to an address in a division of the common address range, a second system address range is generated. The second system address range is mapped to the same physical addresses as the first system address range, except that the division containing the address to be written to and its corresponding division in the second system address range are mapped to different physical addresses. First layer mapping data may be stored in a range table buffer and updated when the second system address range is generated.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Arm Ltd., Cambridge (United Kingdom)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1632575
- Patent Number(s):
- 10565126
- Application Number:
- 15/649,930
- Assignee:
- Arm Limited (Cambridge, GB)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
-
G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 07/14/2017
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
Citation Formats
Beard, Jonathan Curtis, Rusitoru, Roxana, and Dunham, Curtis Glenn. Method and apparatus for two-layer copy-on-write. United States: N. p., 2020.
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Beard, Jonathan Curtis, Rusitoru, Roxana, & Dunham, Curtis Glenn. Method and apparatus for two-layer copy-on-write. United States.
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"Method and apparatus for two-layer copy-on-write". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1632575.
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title = {Method and apparatus for two-layer copy-on-write},
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abstractNote = {A system, apparatus and method are provided in which a range of virtual memory addresses and a copy of that range are mapped to the same first system address range in a data processing system until an address in the virtual memory address range, or its copy, is written to. The common system address range includes a number of divisions. Responsive to a write request to an address in a division of the common address range, a second system address range is generated. The second system address range is mapped to the same physical addresses as the first system address range, except that the division containing the address to be written to and its corresponding division in the second system address range are mapped to different physical addresses. First layer mapping data may be stored in a range table buffer and updated when the second system address range is generated.},
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