Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Controlling access by IO devices to pages in a memory in a computing device
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Application No.: US15949940Application Date: 2018-04-10
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Publication No.: US10509736B2Publication Date: 2019-12-17
- Inventor: Nippon Raval , David A. Kaplan , Philip Ng
- Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Current Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Park, Vaughan, Fleming & Dowler LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/10
- IPC: G06F12/10 ; G06F12/14 ; G06F12/1027 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F12/1081 ; G06F12/109 ; G06F12/1018

Abstract:
An input-output (IO) memory management unit (IOMMU) uses a reverse map table (RMT) to ensure that address translations acquired from a nested page table are correct and that IO devices are permitted to access pages in a memory when performing memory accesses in a computing device. A translation lookaside buffer (TLB) flushing mechanism is used to invalidate address translation information in TLBs that are affected by changes in the RMT. A modified Address Translation Caching (ATC) mechanism may be used, in which only partial address translation information is provided to IO devices so that the RMT is checked when performing memory accesses for the IO devices using the cached address translation information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180232320A1 Controlling Access by IO Devices to Pages in a Memory in a Computing Device Public/Granted day:2018-08-16
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