Re: DRAM unreliable under specific access patern

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jan 09 2015 - 11:31:58 EST


Hi!

> Then it's also quite trivial to induce cache misses without clflush, using just
> few addresses that map to the same cache set, without having to cycle throuh
> more memory than the cache size is.

Hmm. If you can do "clflush" without "clflush", and result is no more
then 10 times slower than "clflush", you can probably break it. Might
need two DIMMs so that you can use one to flush caches while
row-hammering the other one.
Pavel
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