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Does ECC memory make this harder to pull off? I was under the impression that ECC memory does not mitigate rowhammer although it may make it harder[1]. > Test
by ryuuchin 10y ago
Does ECC memory make this harder to pull off? I was under the impression that ECC memory does not mitigate rowhammer although it may make it harder[1].
> 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] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer#Mitigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer#Mitigation
- Natanael_L 10y agoIt reduces the occurrences of successful bitflips with a big margin. So it is helpful, but not perfect.