Abstract: In a computer system having a central processing unit, a main storage and at least one I/O device, a plurality of operating systems (OS) can simultaneously run under the control of a control program. For executing an I/O instruction using a central processing unit, a plurality of resident areas of said main storage which do not overlap one another are assigned, under the control of the control program, to the plurality of OSs as main memories therefore, respectively. In responding to an I/O instruction issued by a running one of said plural OSs, an address of said main memory assigned to said running OS which participates in an I/Oo operation requested by said I/O instruction is determined without intervention of the control program, and the address is translated into an address of the main storage of the computer system without intervention of said control program. The I/O operation is then executed by using the address resulting from said address translation.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device such as a memory device with logic function comprises a plurality of RAM macrocells and gate arrays. The RAM macrocells are constituted by bipolar CMOS RAMs having a total memory capacity of at least 100 kilobits, and the gate arrays contain at least 4000 gates. The logic circuits in the memory device with logic function or the like are constructed by selectively combining CMOS, bipolar CMOS or ECL gate circuits depending on the output load capacity, transmission characteristic requirement, power dissipation and required layout area. The level of signals at various circuits is set to the ECL level or MOS level depending on the local circuit configuration and other factors. The memory device further incorporates sequence control circuits required to be installed downstream of buffer storages of computers.

Abstract: A virtual computer system having a translation lookaside buffer which converts a virtual address to a real address comprises a register (VMNR) for storing the identification number (VMID) of a currently running virtual machine, the translation lookaside buffer having a bit for holding the VMID and a comparison circuit which compares the VMID held in the bit with the VMID provided by the VMNR and predicates the success of conversion from a virtual address to a real address on the basis of a matching result of comparison, a management table for holding data indicative of VMIDs used to define virtual machines which have run up to the current time point, and a control circuit which, when an invalidation command for the translation lookaside buffer is issued during a run of a virtual machine, selects an unused VMID as first information for defining the running virtual machine on the basis of the contents of the management table and sets the selected VMID in the VMNR.

Abstract: In a multiple virtual storage system and more particularly in an address control apparatus, there are provided two kinds of holding devices a designation holding device for holding a segment table designations in association with access registers and a translation buffer for holding translation pairs of the access register and segment table designation. With this arrangement, the segment table designation designating the virtual address space possessing an operand of an instruction can be supplied quickly and efficiently.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device such as a memory device with logic function comprises a plurality of RAM macrocells and gate arrays. The RAM macrocells are constituted by bipolar CMOS RAMs having a total memory capacity of at least 100 kilobits, and the gate arrays contain at least 4000 gates. The logic circuits in the memory device with logic function or the like are constructed by selectively combining CMOS, bipolar CMOS or ECL gate circuits depending on the output load capacity, transmission characteristic requirement, power dissipation and required layout area. The level of signals at various circuits is set to the ECL level or MOS level depending on the local circuit configuration and other factors. The memory device further incorporates sequence control circuits required to be installed downstream of buffer storages of computers.

Abstract: An information processing system having an address expansion function without a need for increasing the number of virtual address overhead is disclosed. An extended address portion is stored in one of a plurality of registers which are selectable responsive to an instruction executed by the system when accessing an operand. A table having entries of segment table origins STOs is disposed in a main memory and is read by using the content of the selected register to obtain a segment table origin STO. An address translation of the virtual address is performed, based on the obtained STO.

Abstract: An address translation apparatus is provided which has an address translation look-aside buffer with an entry composed of a real address field, virtual machine identifier field and space identifier field. For the translation look-aside buffer entry to be used by a general virtual machine which uses a plurality of address spaces, a virtual machine identifier for discrimination of a general virtual machine is stored in the virtual machine identifier field, and information used in discriminating an address space is stored in the space identifier field. For the translation look-aside buffer entry to be used by a dynamic address translation off (DATOFF virtual) machine which uses a single address space, an identifier commonly assigned to a group of DATOFF virtual machines is stored in the virtual machine identifier field, and a control block address used in discriminating a DATOFF virtual machine is stored in the space identifier field.

Abstract: In a virtual machine system (VMS) capable of concurrently running at least one operating system (OS) under one real computer system and a control program (VMCP) for controlling the VMS, the object is to reduce the overhead produced for simulating VM I/Os by direct I/O execution. A VM information area of a real sub-channel control block has a status field in which a flag indicating that the sub-channel is dedicated or not is contained. When the flag is "1", it means that the sub-channel is dedicated to the VM and the sub-channel scheduling by the VMCP is not necessary. As a real interruption priority order is dedicated to a VM, only I/O interruption requests of the VM are queued into the real interruption request queue of that dedicated priority order, and the mixing of VMs in that real interruption priority order is avoided.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus with an address extension function includes a set of address adders for performing address addition with respect to a first fraction of an address for an instruction and/or a data, which fraction corresponds to the not extended bit portion of the address, and a set of domain registers for storing a second fraction of the address for an instruction or an operand, which fraction corresponds to the extended bit portion of the address. If address extension is not made, address translation into a real address is performed using a virtual address obtained through addition operation by the address adder and in accordance with a conventional not address extended program. If address extension is made, address translation into a real address is performed using a virtual address obtained by concatinating the addition result by the address adder with the content of the domain register.

Abstract: A multi-address space control for use in a information processing system includes accessing a plurality of address spaces produced by different address translation table based on a selection command for a plurality of first address registers, and comparing a program status word key with a main storage key in a main storage to protect the main storage.

Abstract: A multiple virtual space control in a multiple virtual storage system having an address translation table used to translate a logical address to a real address, a control register for holding a start address of the address translation table or a space identifier (hereinafter represented by address translation table start address) and an address translation buffer containing a pair of logical address and real address and an address translation table start address for translating a logical address to a real address, in order to update the content of the control register to switch the virtual space. A group identifier comprising a plurality of bits for identifying an area common to a group of virtual spaces is added to an entry of the address translation table, an entry of the address translation buffer and the control register.

Abstract: In a virtual machine system (VMS) capable of concurrently running at least one operating system (OS) under one real computer system and a control program (VMCP) for controlling the VMS, the object is to reduce the overhead produced for simulating VM I/Os by direct I/O execution. A VM information area of a real sub-channel control block has a status field in which a flag indicating that the sub-channel is dedicated or not is contained. When the flag is "0", it means that the sub-channel is dedicated to the VM and the sub-channel scheduling by the VMCP is not necessary. As a real interruption priority order is dedicated to a VM, only I/O interruption requests of the VM are queued into the real interruption request queue of that dedicated priority order, and the mixing of VMs in that real interruption priority order is avoided.