Systems and methods for providing shared virtual memory addressing support for a host system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics processor includes processing resources to perform graphics operations. A memory management unit (MMU) is coupled to the processing resources. The MMU to support a first virtual address size for managing allocation of non-shared virtual memory and to support a second virtual address size for managing allocation of shared virtual memory that is shared between the graphics processor and a host.

A method for managing memory within a computing system. The method includes one or more computer processors identifying a range of physical memory addresses that store a first data. The method further includes determining whether a second data is stored within the range of physical memory addresses that stores the first data. The method further includes responding to determining that the second data is stored within the range of physical memory addresses that store the first data, by determining whether a process accessing the second data is identified as associated with a side-channel attack. The method further includes responding to determining that the process accessing the second data is associated with the side-channel attack, by initiating a response associated with the process accessing the second data.

In various embodiments, apparatuses and methods are disclosed to keep a memory clock gated when the data for a current memory address is the same as the data in the immediate previous memory address. For a write function, new data will only be written into the current memory address if it is different from the data in the immediate previous memory address. Similarly, for a read function, the data will only be read out of the current memory address if it is different from the data in the immediate previous memory address. Each row in the memory may have one associated status bit outside the memory. Data may only be written to or read from the current memory address when the status bit is set. Clock gating the memory ports may reduce the overall power consumption of the memory.

Example implementations include a system of secure decryption by virtualization and translation of physical encryption keys, the system having a key translation memory operable to store at least one physical mapping address corresponding to at least one virtual key address, a physical key memory operable to store at least one physical encryption key at a physical memory address thereof; and a key security engine operable generate at least one key address translation index, obtain, from the key translation memory, the physical mapping address based on the key address translation index and the virtual key address, and retrieve, from the physical key memory, the physical encryption key stored at the physical memory address.

An apparatus includes an extended capability register and an input/output (I/O) memory management circuitry. The I/O memory management circuitry is to receive, from an I/O device, an address translation request referencing a guest virtual address associated with a guest virtual address space of a virtual machine. The I/O memory management circuitry may translate the guest virtual address to a guest physical address associated with a guest physical address space of the virtual machine, and, responsive to determining that a value stored by the extended capability register indicates a restrict-translation-request-response (RTRR) mode, transmit, to the I/O device, a translation response having the guest physical address.

Apparatus comprising translation circuitry to perform a translation operation to generate a translated second memory address within a second memory address space as a translation of a first memory address within a first memory address space, in which the translation circuitry is configured to generate the translated second memory address in dependence upon translation information stored at one or more translation information addresses; permission circuitry to perform an operation to detect permission information to indicate, for a given second memory address, whether memory access is permitted to the given second memory address; and access circuitry to allow access to data stored at the given second memory address when the permission information indicates that memory access is permitted to the given second memory address.

An apparatus has tag checking circuitry responsive to a target address to: identify a guard tag stored in a memory system in association with a block of one or more memory locations, the block containing a target memory location identified by the target address, perform a tag check based on the guard tag and an address tag associated with the target address, and in response to detecting a mismatch in the tag check, perform an error response action. The apparatus also has tag mapping storage circuitry to store mapping information indicative of a mapping between guard tag values and corresponding address tag values. The tag checking circuitry remaps at least one of the guard tag and the address tag based on the mapping information stored by the tag mapping storage circuitry to generate a remapped tag for use in the tag check.

A processor comprises a core, a cache, and a ZCM manager in communication with the core and the cache. In response to an access request from a first software component, wherein the access request involves a memory address within a cache line, the ZCM manager is to (a) compare an OTAG associated with the memory address against a first ITAG for the first software component, (b) if the OTAG matches the first ITAG, complete the access request, and (c) if the OTAG does not match the first ITAG, abort the access request. Also, in response to a send request from the first software component, the ZCM manager is to change the OTAG associated with the memory address to match a second ITAG for a second software component. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

A memory module includes a device memory configured to store data and including a first memory area and a second memory area, and a controller including an accelerator circuit. The controller is configured to control the device memory, transmit a command to exclude the first memory area from the system memory map to a host processor in response to a mode change request, and modify a memory configuration register to exclude the first memory area from the memory configuration register. The accelerator circuit is configured to use the first memory area to perform an acceleration operation.

Restricting peripheral device protocols in confidential compute architectures, the method including: receiving a first address translation request from a peripheral device supporting a first protocol, wherein the first protocol supports cache coherency between the peripheral device and a processor cache; determining that a confidential compute architecture is enabled; and providing, in response to the first address translation request, a response including an indication to the peripheral device to not use the first protocol.