Abstract:
Embodiments of the claimed subject matter provide systems and methods for protecting data in dynamically allocated regions of memory. The method can include receiving the read request where the read request comprises a virtual address associated with a memory and determining a physical address associated with the virtual address. The further includes determining whether the physical address associated with the virtual address is read protected and determining whether the read request is from a component allowed to access read protected memory. The read protected memory was dynamically allocated on a per page basis. The method further includes in response to determining that the read request is to a read protected physical address and determining that the component is allowed to access read protected memory, sending the data from the physical address in the memory.
Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for reducing the time required to read and write data to memory. Data reads and/or writes can be delayed when error correction code (ECC) bits, which are used to detect and/or correct data corruption, are written to memory. Writing ECC bits can take longer in some instances than writing data bits because an ECC write may involve a read/modify/write operation, as opposed to just simply writing the bits to memory. Some latencies associated with writing ECC bits can be hidden by interleaving ECC writes with data writes. However, if insufficient data writes are available for interleaving, hiding such latencies become difficult. Thus, various techniques are disclosed, for example, where ECC writes are deferred until a sufficient number of data writes become available for interleaving. By interleaving ECC writes, the disclosed techniques decrease the overall time required to read and write data to memory.