MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517058217 A) filed by Arm Limited, Cambridge, U.K., on June 17, for 'apparatus, method and computer program, for performing translation table entry load/store operation.'
Inventor(s) include Chadwick, Alexander Donald Charles; Rutland, Mark Salling; and Grisenthwaite, Richard Roy.
The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A translation table entry load/store operation is performed for at least one target translation table entry address selected depending on software-defined address information identifying a selected address in an input address space. Each target translation table entry address comprises an address of a leaf translation table entry providing address mapping information for translating the selected address from the input address space to an output address space or an address of a branch translation table entry traversed in a translation table walk operation for obtaining that leaf translation table entry. At least one variant of the translation table entry load/store operation supports, for a given target translation table entry of the at least one target translation table entry, clearing access tracking metadata of the given target translation table entry from a first state (indicating that at least one load/store access has occurred to a corresponding region of input address space) to a second state (indicating that no load/store accesses have occurred to the corresponding region)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 17, 2023, under International application No.PCT/GB2023/053026.
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