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  • Method and apparatus for preventing and recovering from TLB corruption by soft error
    Patent number: 7415633
    Abstract: A detection and recovery mechanism is herein disclosed for soft errors corrupting TLB data. The mechanism works with a hardware page walker (HPW) and instruction steering control mechanisms in a processor to provide soft error recovery in the TLB arrays and latches. Through use of the disclosed detection and recovery mechanism, efficient and robust protection from silent data corruption is provided without requiring more expensive built-in redundancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sujat Jamil, Hang Nguyen