Breaking a lock situation in a processor without detection of the lock situation using a multi-level approach

摘要

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method including initiating a cleaning operation to clear a first processor core of a system of pending operations, and preventing injection of new events into a second processor core if the cleaning operation is not serviced in the first processor core. In this way, lock situations may be broken without their detection. Other embodiments are described and claimed.