Method and apparatus for accessing hardware resource

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9529650
APP PUB NO 20160224399A1
SERIAL NO

15059380

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A method and an apparatus for accessing a hardware resource are provided. The method includes configuring permission for one or more privileged instructions that are used for hardware access such that when the privileged instructions are used by a user mode application program, the application program can access a hardware resource without trapping into a kernel, and executing the privileged instructions that are encapsulated in the privileged application programming interface (API) that is called at the code level by the application program , and a privileged instruction for direct access to a hardware resource is set and encapsulated into an API, which is deployed in user space in order to reduce system overheads for accessing the hardware resource and improve processing efficiency.

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  • HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hou, Ruihua Beijing, CN 1 5
Zhan, Jianfeng Beijing, CN 10 20
Zhang, Lixin Beijing, CN 161 2238
Zheng, Chen Beijing, CN 52 324

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