Chris M Dearman

US Patent:

20130132702, May 23, 2013

Filed:

Nov 21, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/683875

Inventors:

MIPS Technologies, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA, US
Chris Dearman - Sunnyvale CA, US
Ranganathan Sudhakar - Santa Clara CA, US

Assignee:

MIPS Technologies, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 12/08

US Classification:

711202

Abstract:

A computer includes a memory and a processor connected to the memory. The processor includes memory segment configuration registers to store defined memory address segments and defined memory address segment attributes such that the processor operates in accordance with the defined memory address segments and defined memory address segment attributes to allow kernel mode access to user space virtual addresses for enhanced kernel mode memory capacity.