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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 16, 2021
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Pawel Wieczorkiewicz, Dresden, DE;

Martin Pohlack, Dresden, DE;

Uwe Dannowski, Moritzburg, DE;

Bjoern Doebel, Dresden, DE;

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/54 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 12/0864 (2016.01); G06F 12/0882 (2016.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/79 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/54 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 12/0864 (2013.01); G06F 12/0882 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/79 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer system and associated methods are disclosed for mitigating side-channel attacks using memory page remapping. The computer system includes a main memory and a shared cache, the shared cache implementing cache set associativity determined by a portion of memory addresses of the main memory. Multiple physical memory pages are reserved for mapping to a virtual memory page, the physical memory pages differing in the respective portions of their memory addresses determining cache set associativity. Accesses to the virtual memory page result in a mapping of one of the reserved physical memory pages to the virtual memory page, with remapping events causing different ones of the physical memory pages to become mapped. This remapping results in varying cache set associativity of elements stored in the virtual memory page over time.


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