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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Mark Seaborn <mseaborn@chromium.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	luto@amacapital.net
Subject: Re: DRAM unreliable under specific access patern
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 00:20:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150106232025.GA32569@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150105192329.5f32c155@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Mon 2015-01-05 19:23:29, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > In the meantime, I created test that actually uses physical memory,
> > 8MB apart, as described in some footnote. It is attached. It should
> > work, but it needs boot with specific config options and specific
> > kernel parameters.
> 
> Why not just use hugepages. You know the alignment guarantees for 1GB
> pages and that means you don't even need to be root
> 
> In fact - should we be disabling 1GB huge page support by default at this
> point, at least on non ECC boxes ?

Actually, I could not get my test code to run; and as code from

https://github.com/mseaborn/rowhammer-test

reproduces issue for me, I stopped trying. I could not get it to
damage memory of other process than itself (but that should be
possible), I guess that's next thing to try.

									Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-06 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAL82V5NN8U4PyiSjLxgpTrgsgkbM7rRCbVF5P-HHyEqphLOy+g@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-24 22:08 ` DRAM unreliable under specific access patern Pavel Machek
2015-01-05 19:23   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-01-05 19:50     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-01-06  1:47       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-06  1:57         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-01-06  2:18           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-06  2:26             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-01-08 13:03               ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-01-08 16:52                 ` Pavel Machek
2015-01-09 15:50                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-01-09 16:31                   ` Pavel Machek
2015-01-06 23:20     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2015-03-09 16:03       ` Mark Seaborn
2015-03-09 16:30         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-09 21:17           ` Pavel Machek
2015-03-09 21:37             ` Mark Seaborn
2015-03-10 11:33         ` DRAM bug exploitable on 50% machines without ECC (was Re: DRAM unreliable under specific access patern) Pavel Machek
2014-12-24 22:27 ` DRAM unreliable under specific access patern Pavel Machek
2014-12-24 23:41 ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]   ` <CAE2SPAa-tBFk0gnOhEZiriQA7bv6MmL9HGqAMSceUKKqujBDPQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-25  9:23     ` Pavel Machek
2014-12-28 22:48   ` Mark Seaborn
2014-12-24 16:38 Pavel Machek
2014-12-24 16:46 ` Pavel Machek
2014-12-24 17:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-12-24 17:25   ` Pavel Machek
2014-12-24 17:38     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-12-24 17:50       ` Pavel Machek
2014-12-29 12:13         ` Jiri Kosina
2014-12-29 17:09           ` Pavel Machek
2014-12-28  9:18 ` Willy Tarreau

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