Handling faults associated with operation of guest software in the virtual-machine architecture
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving fault information relating to a fault associated with an operation of guest software;
determining whether the fault information satisfies at least one fault filtering criterion;
causing the guest software to ignore the fault if the fault information satisfies the at least one fault filtering criterion; and
delivering the fault to the guest software if the fault information does not satisfy the at least one fault filtering criterion.
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Abstract
In one embodiment, fault information relating to a fault associated with the operation of guest software is received. Further, a determination is made as to whether the fault information satisfies one or more fault filtering criteria. If the determination is positive, the guest software is permitted to disregard the fault.
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24 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving fault information relating to a fault associated with an operation of guest software; determining whether the fault information satisfies at least one fault filtering criterion; causing the guest software to ignore the fault if the fault information satisfies the at least one fault filtering criterion; and delivering the fault to the guest software if the fault information does not satisfy the at least one fault filtering criterion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method comprising:
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detecting an occurrence of a faulting condition associated with an operation of guest software; determining whether fault information pertaining to the faulting condition satisfies at least one fault filtering criterion, the determination comprising comparing data associated with the operation of the guest software with data stored in at least one of memory and a processor register; and determining whether the guest software is permitted to ignore the faulting condition based on the evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system comprising:
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a memory having stored therein guest software; and a processor, coupled to the memory, to execute the guest software, to determine whether fault information relating to a fault associated with an operation of the guest software satisfies at least one fault filtering criterion, to cause the guest software to ignore the fault if the fault information satisfies the at least one fault filtering criterion, to determine that the fault information does not satisfy the at least one fault filtering criterion, and to deliver the fault to the guest software. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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18. A system comprising:
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a memory having stored therein guest software; and a processor, coupled to the memory, to execute the guest software, to detect an occurrence of a faulting condition associated with an operation of guest software, to determine whether fault information pertaining to the faulting condition satisfies at least one fault filtering criterion, the determination comprising comparing data associated with the operation of the guest software with data stored in at least one of memory and a processor register, and to determine whether the guest software is permitted to ignore the faulting condition based on the evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. A machine-readable medium containing instructions which, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
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receiving fault information relating to a fault associated with an operation of guest software; determining whether the fault information satisfies at least one fault filtering criterion; causing the guest software to ignore the fault if the fault information satisfies the at least one fault filtering criterion; determining that the fault information does not satisfy the at least one fault filtering criterion; and delivering the fault to the guest software. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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23. A machine-readable medium containing instructions which, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
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detecting an occurrence of a faulting condition associated with an operation of guest software; determining whether fault information pertaining to the faulting condition satisfies at least one fault filtering criterion, the determination comprising comparing data associated with the operation of the guest software with data stored in at least one of memory and a processor register; and determining whether the guest software is permitted to ignore the faulting condition based on the evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (24)
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