On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:46:26PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
Some paper has said systems using ECC RAM are resistant / immune to rowhammer.
There is still a fair bump in cost for ECC system however once you've seen your first syslog entry you forget about the cost. Regardless of rowhammer.
http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/dram-row-hammer_kim_talk_isca14.pdf p. 32 of the PDF: – Simple ECC (e.g., SECDED) cannot prevent all errors From wikipedia: Tests show that simple ECC solutions, providing single-error correction and double-error detection (SECDED) capabilities, are not able to correct or detect all observed disturbance errors because some of them include more than two flipped bits per memory word.[1]:8[11]:32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer#cite_ref-isca14-talk_11-0