Fundamentally understanding and solving rowhammer

O Mutlu, A Olgun, AG Yağlıkcı - Proceedings of the 28th Asia and South …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We provide an overview of recent developments and future directions in the RowHammer
vulnerability that plagues modern DRAM (Dynamic Random Memory Access) chips, which …

DRAM Bender: An Extensible and Versatile FPGA-based Infrastructure to Easily Test State-of-the-art DRAM Chips

A Olgun, H Hassan, AG Yağlıkçı… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To understand and improve DRAM performance, reliability, security, and energy efficiency,
prior works study characteristics of commodity DRAM chips. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art …

Siloz: Leveraging DRAM Isolation Domains to Prevent Inter-VM Rowhammer

K Loughlin, J Rosenblum, S Saroiu, A Wolman… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Today's cloud DRAM lacks strong isolation primitives, highlighted by Rowhammer bit flips.
Rowhammer poses an increasing threat to cloud security/reliability, given (1) DRAM …

CoMeT: Count-Min-Sketch-based Row Tracking to Mitigate RowHammer at Low Cost

FN Bostanci, ISE Yüksel, A Olgun… - … Symposium on High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DRAM chips are increasingly more vulnerable to read-disturbance phenomena (eg,
RowHammer and RowPress), where repeatedly accessing DRAM rows causes bitflips in …

[PDF][PDF] ABACuS: All-Bank Activation Counters for Scalable and Low Overhead RowHammer Mitigation

A Olgun, YC Tugrul, N Bostanci, IE Yuksel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - usenix.org
We introduce ABACuS, a new low-cost hardware-counterbased RowHammer mitigation
technique that performance-, energy-, and area-efficiently scales with worsening …

Spatial Variation-Aware Read Disturbance Defenses: Experimental Analysis of Real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Solutions

AG Yağlıkçı, YC Tuğrul, GF Oliveira, İE Yüksel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Read disturbance in modern DRAM chips is a widespread phenomenon and is reliably used
for breaking memory isolation, a fundamental building block for building robust systems …

How to Kill the Second Bird with One ECC: The Pursuit of Row Hammer Resilient DRAM

MJ Kim, M Wi, J Park, S Ko, J Choi, H Nam… - Proceedings of the 56th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Error-correcting code (ECC) has been widely used in DRAM-based memory systems to
address the exacerbating random errors following the fabrication process scaling. However …

Leveraging Adversarial Detection to Enable Scalable and Low Overhead RowHammer Mitigations

O Canpolat, AG Yağlıkçı, A Olgun, İE Yüksel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
RowHammer is a prime example of read disturbance in DRAM where repeatedly accessing
(hammering) a row of DRAM cells (DRAM row) induces bitflips in other physically nearby …

Retrospective: RAIDR: Retention-Aware Intelligent DRAM Refresh

O Mutlu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16024, 2023 - arxiv.org
Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is the prevalent memory technology used to
build main memory systems of almost all computers. A fundamental shortcoming of DRAM is …

Understanding Read Disturbance in High Bandwidth Memory: An Experimental Analysis of Real HBM2 DRAM Chips

A Olgun, M Osseiran, AG Yaglikci, YC Tugrul… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
DRAM read disturbance is a significant and worsening safety, security, and reliability issue
of modern DRAM chips that can be exploited to break memory isolation. Two prominent …