HANDLING MUTEX LOCKS IN A DYNAMIC BINARY TRANSLATION ACROSS HETEROGENOUS COMPUTER SYSTEMS

A method for executing non-native binaries on a host computer architecture comprises receiving a guest executable binary encoded on a computer readable medium. The guest executable binary is executable on a first computer architecture. Moreover, the guest executable binary includes a mutex lock enco...

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Main Authors BANERJEE CHANDRAMOULI, CHEN WILLIAM Y, DAS ABHINAV, LU JIWEI
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 06.05.2010
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A method for executing non-native binaries on a host computer architecture comprises receiving a guest executable binary encoded on a computer readable medium. The guest executable binary is executable on a first computer architecture. Moreover, the guest executable binary includes a mutex lock encoded instructions for implementing a mutex lock. The guest executable binary is then executed on the host computer architecture by first translating the guest executable binary to a translated executable binary. The encoded instructions for implementing a mutex lock are translated by mapping the mutex lock to an instance of a compound mutex lock data structure. A computer system implementing methods for executing non-native binaries on a host computer architecture is also provided.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20080264944