摘要:
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for executing a first code portion of a pre-boot environment from a first non-volatile memory, authenticating a trusted hypervisor in the first non-volatile memory using the first code portion, executing the trusted hypervisor if the trusted hypervisor is authenticated, and authenticating a basic input/output system (BIOS) present in a second non-volatile memory with the trusted hypervisor and transferring control from the trusted hypervisor to the BIOS if the BIOS is authenticated. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
摘要:
A processing system includes multiple processing units. After multiple event handlers have been dispatched to execute concurrently in different processing units of the processing system in a hidden execution mode, the processing system automatically determines whether the multiple event handlers successfully complete. If an event handler among the multiple dispatched event handlers fails, the processing system automatically dispatches another event handler to perform operations associated with the event handler that failed. In an embodiment, the hidden execution mode is a system management mode (SMM), and the multiple event handlers are dispatched in response to a system management interrupt (SMI) or a platform management interrupt (PMI). In an embodiment, the processing system may determine why the dispatched event handler failed, and may performing a corrective operation before dispatching another event handler to perform the operations associated with the event handler that failed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
摘要:
Reducing memory fragmentation. Memory is allocated during a preboot phase of a computer system, wherein the memory is allocated based on a plurality of memory types. Fragmentation of memory is determined, wherein a fragment includes a contiguous block of memory of the same type. At least a portion of memory allocated to a firmware module is coalesced based on the plurality of memory types if the fragmentation is greater than a threshold. An operating system is booted by the computer system.
摘要:
A system and method to resume execution of a client system from a saved system state without executing a boot-up process. A data storage unit and the client system having volatile system memory are coupled to a network. Data stored on the data storage unit is received via the network and loaded into the volatile system memory of the client system. The data contains information for the client system to resume execution from the saved system state without executing a boot-up process after a power-off state. The client system is then capable of resuming operation from the saved system state.
摘要:
An apparatus, method, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a trusted platform module to store a plurality of contexts, wherein each context includes stored security information for one of a plurality of physical partitions in a computer system.
摘要:
Embodiments of a method and system for saving system context after a power outage are disclosed herein. A power agent operates to reduce the possibility of data corruption due to partially written data during an unexpected power outage. The power agent can determine an amount of time remaining before a power store is depleted. Based on the amount of time, the power agent can store system context information. Correspondingly, the power agent can operate to save complete system context, partial system context, or flush (I/O) buffers. Once power is restored, the power agent can restore the system context based on the nature of the save. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
摘要:
Provided are a method, system, and machine readable medium for using multiple non-volatile memory devices to store data in a computer system. Access to a first and second memory devices are managed. The first memory device has faster read access and slower write access relative to the second memory device and the second memory device has slower read access and faster write access relative to the first memory device. Write requests to the first memory device are cached in the second memory device.
摘要:
A peer-to-peer IT (Information Technology) backbone. The system includes at least one IT server and a plurality of client computers arranged in a peer-to-peer IT backbone. Each of the client computers includes an in-band processor, an out-of-band (OOB) microcontroller, and a storage device coupled to the in-band processor and OOB microcontroller. The storage device includes a reserved area for the OOB microcontroller to enable an IT-administration to push IT payloads from the at least one IT server onto the reserved area of at least one of the plurality of client computers. The IT payloads are disseminated throughout the peer-to-peer IT backbone by the OOB microcontroller of the client computers.
摘要:
A method and apparatus is described herein for fault resilient booting of a platform. Upon booting the platform, any boot routines marked are skipped. A current boot routine to be executed in a boot sequence is registered in nonvolatile memory. An attempt to execute the current boot routine is made. If the attempt is successful, the next boot entry is determined and skipped or executed, based on whether it is marked. However, if the execution fails the current boot routine is marked and, upon subsequent execution of the boot sequence, skipped.
摘要:
In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method to provide maximal boot-time parallelism for future multi-core, multi-node, and many-core systems. In an embodiment, the security (SEC), pre-EFI initialization (PEI), and then driver execution environment (DXE) phases are executed in parallel on multiple compute nodes (sockets) of a platform. Once the SEC/PEI/DXE phases are executed on all compute nodes having a processor, the boot device select (BDS) phase completes the boot by merging or partitioning the compute nodes based on a platform policy. Partitioned compute nodes each run their own instance of EFI. A common memory map may be generated prior to operating system (OS) launch when compute nodes are to be merged. Other embodiments are described and claimed.