METHOD IN A PROCESSOR, AN APPARATUS AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

摘要

There is disclosed a method in which information relating to a sequence of instructions of a thread is examined to determine a security condition of the thread. It is further determined by using the security condition which processor core of a multicore processor has an appropriate security mode to fulfil the security condition. If the determining indicates that one or more processor cores of the multicore processor has the appropriate security mode are available, one of the one or more processor cores is selected as a potential processor core to execute the sequence of instructions of the thread. There is also disclosed an apparatus and a computer program product to implement the method.