[$] Defending against Rowhammer in the kernel

The Rowhammervulnerability affects hardware at the deepest levels. It has proved to besurprisingly exploitable on a number of different systems, leavingsecurity-oriented developers at a loss. Since it is a hardwarevulnerability, it would appear that solutions, too, must be placed in thehardware. Now, though, an interesting software-based mitigation mechanismis under discussion on the linux-kernel mailing list. The ultimateeffectiveness of this defense is unproven, but it does show that there maybe hope for a solution that doesn't require buying new computers.