Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Efficient reboot of an operating system
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Application No.: US15191438Application Date: 2016-06-23
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Publication No.: US10586048B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Xunjia Lu , Xavier Deguillard , Mukund Gunti , Vishnu Sekhar
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
- Current Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Thomas | Horstemeyer, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F21/57
- IPC: G06F21/57 ; G06F1/24 ; G06F9/4401

Abstract:
A computer system is rebooted upon crash without running platform firmware and without retrieving all of the modules included in a boot image from an external source and reloading them into system memory. The reboot process includes the steps of stopping and resetting all of the processing units, except one of the processing units that detected the crash event, selecting the one processing unit to execute a reboot operation, and executing the reboot operation to reboot the computer system.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170372075A1 EFFICIENT REBOOT OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-12-28
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