Patent ID: 9535804
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method in a computing system for correcting memory errors reported by a memory system, the method comprising: registering a handler with instructions for handling memory errors reported by the memory system; fetching a load instruction of a processor of the computing system, the load instruction for loading a data word from an address of the memory system, wherein the data word is not an instruction for execution by the processor; executing the fetched load instruction to load the data word from the address of the memory system; when a memory error does not occur during execution of the load instruction, providing the data word loaded from the memory as the result of the load instruction; when a memory error does occur during execution of the load instruction, executing by the processor instructions of the registered handler that: wherein the execution of the load instruction, when a memory error does not occur, needs no additional overhead.