Information processing system with control methods and apparatus for information storage and interrupt request handling scheme

• US 5,634,077 A
• Filed: 01/09/1995
• Issued: 05/27/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Takeuchi, Yoichiro, Yagi, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Matthew M.
• Application Number:
  US08/370,236
• Time in Patent Office: 869 Days
• Field of Search: 364/200 MS File, 364/900 MS File, 395/401, 395/486, 395/492, 395/775, 395/487, 395/733, 395/868
• US Class Current: 710/48
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/24 using interrupt G06F13/32 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/463 Program control block organisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4812 by interrupt, e.g. masked

Abstract

An information processing system including an operational processing system having a plurality of registers, for executing an operational processing. A storage system having a memory unit, connected to the operational processing system, stores information stored in the registers into an information region in the memory unit. A memory information storing unit stores information on a stored information region within the information region. The stored information region has already stored information. A input unit inputs the information stored in the registers into the memory unit. And a control unit controls the input unit to control inputting the information stored in the registers into the memory unit according to the information on the stored information region of the memory unit.

Claims

1. An information processing system including an operational processing system having a plurality of registers for executing an operational processing, and a storage system connected to the operational processing system for storing information stored in the registers, the storage system comprising:

interruption processing detector means for detecting whether an execution of interruption processing is requested in the operational processing system;

memory means having an information storing region organized in a stack structure, for storing the information stored in the registers into the information storing region;

input means for inputting the information stored in the registers into the information storing region of the memory means;

address data storing means for storing address data for a stored information region within the information storing region, wherein the stored information region stores the information from the registers and the address data includes an address of the register most recently stored into the information storing region; and

control means for controlling the input means to control inputting the information stored in the registers into the information storing region of the memory means according to the address data for the stored information region within the information storing region, and to suspend inputting the information stored in the registers into the information storing region prior to the completion of the storage of the information stored in all of the plurality of registers into the information storing region, when a request for the execution of interruption processing is detected by the interruption processing detector means.

2. The information processing system of claim 1, wherein the address data storing means includes information update means for updating the address data for the stored information region within the information storing region of the memory means.

3. A method of controlling an information processing system including an operational processing system having a plurality of registers for executing an operational processing and a storage system connected to the operational processing system for storing information stored in the registers into an information storing region within the storage system, the method comprising the steps of;

storing the information stored in the registers into the information storing region;

detecting whether an execution of interruption processing is requested in the operational processing system;

suspending the step of storing the information stored in the registers into the information storing region prior to the completion of the storage of the information stored in all of the plurality of registers into the information storing region, when a request for the execution of interruption processing is detected;

storing address data for a stored information region within the information storing region, where the stored information region stores the information from the registers and the address data includes an address of the register most recently stored into the information storing region;

resuming storing, based on the address data, the information stored in the registers into the information storing region.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of storing the address data for the stored information region includes a step of updating the address data for the stored information region.