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Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2020
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventor:

Daniel John Farrell, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 11/1044 (2013.01); G06F 12/023 (2013.01);
Abstract

Vulnerabilities to physical memory, such as server dynamic random access memory (DRAM) with error correction code (ECC) capability, can be mitigated though the use of guard pages allocated in that physical memory. Physical memory pages can be mapped to virtual memory pages of a contiguous virtual address space. When an error such as a bit flip is detected in a physical memory page, the data from that physical memory page can be copied to a protected page, such as a guard page or page isolated from other sensitive data. Information such as an error correction code (ECC) can be used to determine and correct the erroneous bit. The mappings in a related page table can be updated such that the same virtual pages or addresses are then mapped to the guard page that now includes the relevant data.


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