Patent ID: 9390014
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of performing operations in a computing environment, said method comprising: initiating, by a processor of the computing environment, a synchronization operation to instruct one or more other processors of the computing environment to commit pending updates of one or more status indicators of one or more entries of an address translation structure located in memory; receiving, by the processor, a completion indication by the one or more other processors indicating completion of the synchronization operation; invalidating, by the processor, based on receipt of the completion indication from the one or more other processors, one or more selected entries of one or more local caches, the one or more selected entries having at least one status indicator that has been updated; and performing an operation using one or more entries of the address translation structure, wherein the performing the operation comprises changing a plurality of units of memory from read-write to read-only.