[kaba0]

I think moving such complexity to hardware was a mistake (like branch predictor, etc). Perhaps exposing a very low level API to CPU functionality (like microcode level) and JIT compiling existing x86 to that could perhaps work? We have just enough problem managing complexity in software but at least it is fixable there.

(As for the possibility of such, there is already an x86 to x86 JIT compiler that increases performance)

[notriddle]

What does any of this stuff have to do with Rowhammer, an attach that doesn't even target the CPU, which just so happens to have ECC on all its registers and cache lines?

[kaba0]

Parent was talking about modern hardware in general, and it’s not like CPUs don’t get their own fair share of similar vulnerabilities. Also, a JIT compiler can probably realize that the same memory region gets rowhammered and may throttle execution of such thread.