801 storage: architecture and programming
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Garbage collection in an uncooperative environment
Software—Practice & Experience
Real-time concurrent collection on stock multiprocessors
PLDI '88 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1988 conference on Programming Language design and Implementation
Mul-T: a high-performance parallel Lisp
PLDI '89 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1989 Conference on Programming language design and implementation
Threads and input/output in the synthesis kernal
SOSP '89 Proceedings of the twelfth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Memory coherence in shared virtual memory systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Virtual memory primitives for user programs
ASPLOS IV Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
The interaction of architecture and operating system design
ASPLOS IV Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
MIPS RISC architectures
ASPLOS V Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Protection traps and alternatives for memory management of an object-oriented language
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
ICS '90 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Supercomputing
APRIL: a processor architecture for multiprocessing
ISCA '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual international symposium on Computer Architecture
A real-time garbage collector based on the lifetimes of objects
Communications of the ACM
Redirecting System Calls in Mach 3.0, An alternative to the Emulator
USENIX MACH III Symposium
A Performance Study of Alternative Object Faulting and Pointer Swizzling Strategies
VLDB '92 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Generation Scavenging: A non-disruptive high performance storage reclamation algorithm
SDE 1 Proceedings of the first ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
Exporting a user interface to memory management from a communication-oriented operating system
Exporting a user interface to memory management from a communication-oriented operating system
The operating system kernel as a secure programmable machine
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Active memory: a new abstraction for memory-system simulation
Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Informing memory operations: providing memory performance feedback in modern processors
ISCA '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Active memory: a new abstraction for memory system simulation
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Trace-driven memory simulation: a survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Reactive NUMA: a design for unifying S-COMA and CC-NUMA
Proceedings of the 24th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
An Architecture for Exporting Environment Awareness to Mobile Computing Applications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Hardware Support for Flexible Distributed Shared Memory
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A look at several memory management units, TLB-refill mechanisms, and page table organizations
Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Self-paging in the Nemesis operating system
OSDI '99 Proceedings of the third symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Responsiveness without interrupts
ICS '99 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Supercomputing
Concurrent Event Handling through Multithreading
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Uniprocessor Virtual Memory without TLBs
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Improving Release-Consistent Shared Virtual Memory using Automatic Update
HPCA '96 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
Locking with Different Granularities for Reads and Writes in an MVM System
IDEAS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Database Engineering & Applications
Checkpointing for workflow recovery
ACM-SE 38 Proceedings of the 38th annual on Southeast regional conference
Design Trade-Offs for User-Level I/O Architectures
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Software write detection for a distributed shared memory
OSDI '94 Proceedings of the 1st USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Integrating coherency and recoverability in distributed systems
OSDI '94 Proceedings of the 1st USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
A transactional memory service in an extensible operating system
ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
A comparison of OS extension technologies
ATEC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
The region trap library: handling traps on application-defined regions of memory
ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Pangaea: a tightly-coupled IA32 heterogeneous chip multiprocessor
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Parallel architectures and compilation techniques
A case for system support for concurrency exceptions
HotPar'09 Proceedings of the First USENIX conference on Hot topics in parallelism
Exception handling in the choices operating system
Advanced Topics in Exception Handling Techniques
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Program-synchronous exceptions, for example, breakpoints, watchpoints, illegal opcodes, and memory access violations, provide information about exceptional conditions, interrupting the program and vectoring to an operating system handler. Over the last decade, however, programs and run-time systems have increasingly employed these mechanisms as a performance optimization to detect normal and expected conditions. Unfortunately, current architecture and operating system structures are designed for exceptional or erroneous conditions, where performance is of secondary importance, rather than normal conditions. Consequently, this has limited the practicality of such hardware-based detection mechanisms.We propose both hardware and software structures that permit efficient handling of synchronous exceptions by user-level code. We demonstrate a software implementation that reduces exception-delivery cost by an order-of-magnitude on current RISC processors, and show the performance benefits of that mechanism for several example applications.