SECONDARY CPU MMU INITIALIZATION USING PAGE FAULT EXCEPTION

• Main Authors: WARKENTIN ANDREI, TUCH HARVEY
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.06.2016
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

In a computer system with multiple central processing units (CPUs), initialization of a memory management unit (MMU) for a secondary CPU is performed using an exception generated by the MMU. In general, this technique leverages the exception handling features of the secondary CPU to switch the CPU f...