Hardware enabled performance counters with support for operating system context switching

Salapura, Valentina; Wisniewski, Robert W.

Title: Hardware enabled performance counters with support for operating system context switching

Patent · Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015

OSTI ID:1187936

Salapura, Valentina; Wisniewski, Robert W.

A device for supporting hardware enabled performance counters with support for context switching include a plurality of performance counters operable to collect information associated with one or more computer system related activities, a first register operable to store a memory address, a second register operable to store a mode indication, and a state machine operable to read the second register and cause the plurality of performance counters to copy the information to memory area indicated by the memory address based on the mode indication.

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Research Organization:: International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: B554331

Assignee:: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)

Patent Number(s):: 9,069,891

Application Number:: 12/684,190

OSTI ID:: 1187936

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2010 Jan 08

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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