How much/what hardware does the rowhammer DRAM bug affects?

Georgi Guninski guninski at guninski.com
Wed Sep 16 22:52:13 PDT 2015


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 05:28:58AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
> However, the profusion of corrected single-bit can be used to alert, and uncorrectable double-bit errors will probably cause  a system exception that will inform the system operator that something is going on.
> Remember, it is likely that different manufacturer's DRAM designs might differ in sensitivity to rowhammer (or other deliberate failure mode) by a factor of 10:1, 100:1, or even 1000:1.   The word can, and will, quickly get out what manufacturers sensitivity is, and the market will quickly result in improvement for designs and thus, new systems.           Jim Bell

You assume sound market, sound buyers and sound users.

IMHO these assumptions are false.

rowhammer is at least 6 months old.

Are there any market changes supporting your claim?



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