摘要:
Processing circuitry can operate in a secure domain and a less secure domain. In response to an initial exception from background processing performed by the processing circuitry, state saving of data from a first subset of registers is performed by exception control circuitry before triggering an exception handling routine, while the exception handling routine has responsibility for performing state saving of data from a second subset of registers. In response to a first exception causing a transition from the secure domain from a less secure domain, where the background processing was in the less secure domain, the exception control circuitry performs additional state saving of data from the second set of registers before triggering the exception handling routine. In response to a tail-chained exception causing a transition from the secure domain to the less secure domain, the exception handling routine is triggered without performing an additional state saving.
摘要:
A technique for scheduling execution of threads at a processor is disclosed. The technique includes executing a thread de-emphasis instruction of a thread that de-emphasizes the thread until the number of pending memory transactions, such as cache misses, associated with the thread are at or below a threshold. While the thread is de-emphasized, other threads at the processor that have a higher priority can be executed or assigned system resources. Accordingly, the likelihood of a stall in the processor is reduced.
摘要:
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for nullifying memory store instructions and one or more registers identified in a target field of a nullification instruction. In some examples of the disclosed technology, an apparatus can include memory and one or more block-based processor cores configured to fetch and execute a plurality of instruction blocks. One of the cores can include a control unit configured, based at least in part on receiving a nullification instruction, to obtain an instruction identification for a memory access instruction of a plurality of memory access instructions and a register identification of at least one of a plurality of registers, based on a first and second target fields of the nullification instruction. The at least one register and the memory access instruction associated with the instruction identification are nullified. Based on the nullified memory access instruction, a subsequent memory access instruction is executed.
摘要:
A related art semiconductor device suffers from a problem that a processing capacity is decayed by switching an occupied state for each partition. A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes an execution unit that executes an arithmetic instruction, and a scheduler including multiple first setting registers each defining a correspondence relationship between hardware threads and partitions, and generates a thread select signal on the basis of a partition schedule and a thread schedule. The scheduler outputs a thread select signal designating a specific hardware thread without depending on the thread schedule as the partition indicated by a first occupation control signal according to a first occupation control signal output when the execution unit executes a first occupation start instruction.
摘要:
On insère des points de synchronisation (@WD_ti) dans le code programme à contrôler, qui sont associés aux différents branchements résultant de l'exécution d'une instruction de branchement indirect (INSPF4). Ces points de synchronisation sont accessibles par le code programme de contrôle de façon à identifier quel branchement à utiliser lors de l'exécution de l'instruction de branchement indirect (INSXF4) du code programme de contrôle.
摘要:
Atomic instructions, including a Compare And Swap Register, a Load and AND Register, and a Load and OR Register instruction, use registers instead of storage to communicate and share information in a multi-threaded processor. The registers are accessible to multiple threads of the multi-threaded processor, and the instructions operate on these shared registers. Access to the shared registers is controlled by the instructions via interlocking.
摘要:
A technique for transferring data in a digital signal processing system is described. In one example, the digital signal processing system comprises a number of hardware peripherals, each connected to a memory access controller and each configured to read data from a memory device, perform one or more operations on the data, and write data to the memory device. To avoid hardwiring the hardware peripherals together, and to provide a configurable digital signal processing system, a multi-threaded processor controls the transfer of data between the hardware peripherals and the memory. Each processor thread is allocated to a memory access channel, and the threads are configured to detect an occurrence of an event and, responsive to this, control the memory access controller to enable a selected hardware peripheral to read data from or write data to the memory device via its memory access channel.
摘要:
A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic and efficient management of instruction atomicity violations in software programs according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes receiving, at a replay logic from a recording system, a recording of a first software thread running a first macro instruction, and a second software thread running a second macro instruction. The first software thread and the second software thread are executed by a first core and a second core, respectively, of a processor at a computing device. The recording system may record interleavings between the first and second macro instructions. The method includes correctly replaying the recording of the interleavings of the first and second macro instructions precisely as they occurred. The correctly replaying may include replaying a local memory state of the first and second macro instructions and a global memory state of the first and second software threads.