Patent ID: 9317379
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for autonomous recovery from a transient hardware failure by executing each portion of a stream of program instructions as a transaction, the method comprising: creating, by an operating system on a computer system configured to support transactional execution mode processing, a start of a transactional region portion of a stream of program instructions, wherein the portion of the stream of program instructions in the transactional region is to be executed as a transaction in transactional execution mode; in response to starting the transactional region in transactional execution mode: in response to ending execution of the transactional region in transaction execution mode: responsive to a transient hardware failure affecting a program resource required by one or more instructions in the transactional region portion of the stream of program instructions executing as a transaction in transactional execution mode: