Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a processor. The processor includes a memory controller to read and write from a memory. The memory controller includes error correction coding (ECC) circuitry to correct errors in data read from the memory. The processor includes register space to track read data error information. The processor includes an embedded controller. The processor includes local memory coupled to the embedded controller. The embedded controller is to read the read data error information and store the read data error information in the local memory.

Abstract: An apparatus and method to reduce bandwidth and latency associated with probabilistic caches.

Abstract: Techniques are described for providing low-overhead cryptographic memory isolation to mitigate attack vulnerabilities in a multi-user virtualized computing environment. Memory read and memory write operations for target data, each operation initiated via an instruction associated with a particular virtual machine (VM), include the generation and/or validation of a message authentication code that is based at least on a VM-specific cryptographic key and a physical memory address of the target data. Such operations may further include transmitting the generated message authentication code via a plurality of ancillary bits incorporated within a data line that includes the target data. In the event of a validation failure, one or more error codes may be generated and provided to distinct trust domain architecture entities based on an operating mode of the associated virtual machine.

Abstract: A memory device that performs internal ECC (error checking and correction) can selectively return read data with application of the internal ECC or without application of the internal ECC, in response to different read commands from the memory controller. The memory device can normally apply ECC and return corrected data in response to a normal read command. In response to a retry command, the memory device can return the read data without application of the internal ECC.

Abstract: A system can dynamically migrate memory pages from near memory to far memory during runtime. A system basic input output system (BIOS) can program a first memory address space of size P and a second memory address space of size P to a near memory (NM) space of size (N) and a far memory (FM) space of size (M), where P equals N+M. For the first memory address space, the OS can manage the NM space and the FM space as a flat memory space with an address space of size P available. For the second memory address space, the OS can manage the NM space as a NM cache for FM, with an address space of size M available.

Abstract: A system includes a multilevel memory such as a two level memory (2LM), where a first level memory acts as a cache for the second level memory. A memory controller or cache controller can detect a cache miss in the first level memory for a request for data. Instead of automatically performing a swap, the controller can determine whether to perform a swap based on a swap policy assigned to a memory region associated with the address of the requested data.

Abstract: Techniques for Scalable Memory Integrity and Enhanced Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (SMIRAS) based systems are described. A SMIRAS based system may be enabled to use an integrity-based metadata organization that stores data, metadata, and a first portion of ECC data together in memory and a second portion of ECC data in sequestered memory; or using a compression based organization that stores compressed data, compression metadata, and an second portion of ECC data as a cacheline.

Abstract: A memory device that performs internal ECC (error checking and correction) can selectively return read data with application of the internal ECC or without application of the internal ECC, in response to different read commands from the memory controller. The memory device can normally apply ECC and return corrected data in response to a normal read command. In response to a retry command, the memory device can return the read data without application of the internal ECC.

Abstract: A method comprises generating, for a cacheline, a first tag and a second tag, the first tag and the second tag generated as a function of user data stored and metadata in the cacheline stored in a first memory device, and a multiplication parameter derived from a secret key, storing the user data, the metadata, the first tag and the second tag in the first cacheline of the first memory device; generating, for the cacheline, a third tag and a fourth tag, the third tag and the fourth tag generated as a function of the user data stored and metadata in the cacheline stored in a second memory device, and the multiplication parameter; storing the user data, the metadata, the third tag and the fourth tag in the corresponding cache line of the second memory device; receiving, from a requesting device, a read operation directed to the cacheline; and using the first tag, the second tag, the third tag, and the fourth tag to determine whether a read error occurred during the read operation.

Abstract: A memory controller having an error checking and correction (ECC) circuitry can detect an error in data being read from memory and correct that error with a retry flow. The read data is stored in a read data buffer at the memory controller when the read data is received from memory. Once the ECC circuitry detects an error in the read data, the retry flow enables access to that data from the read data buffer instead of reading the data from memory for the second time. Access to the data from the read data buffer reduces the overall time needed for the correction flow compared to a retry flow that rereads the data from memory.

Abstract: In one example, a system for managing encrypted memory comprises a processor to store a first MAC based on data stored in system memory in response to a write operation to the system memory. The processor can also detect a read operation corresponding to the data stored in the system memory, calculate a second MAC based on the data retrieved from the system memory, determine that the second MAC does not match the first MAC, and recalculate the second MAC with a correction operation, wherein the correction operation comprises an XOR operation based on the data retrieved from the system memory and a replacement value for a device of the system memory. Furthermore, the processor can decrypt the data stored in the system memory in response to detecting the recalculated second MAC matches the first MAC and transmit the decrypted data to cache thereby correcting memory errors.

Abstract: A skilled service marketplace scheduling system and method is provided. The system can include a skilled service marketplace coordination system, one or more skilled service marketplace requester devices, and one or more skilled service marketplace provider devices. The coordination system may determine a schedule given a skilled service marketplace request and a skilled service marketplace provider schedule. The coordination system may assign a given request to a skilled service provider based on the skill level of the skilled service provider. The coordination system can account for travel time between the requester and the skilled service provider. The system may interact with third party systems, such as a parts inventory, to create the skilled service marketplace schedule. The system can confirm adequate performance of the skilled service.

Abstract: In one example, a system for managing encrypted memory comprises a processor to store a first MAC based on data stored in system memory in response to a write operation to the system memory. The processor can also detect a read operation corresponding to the data stored in the system memory, calculate a second MAC based on the data retrieved from the system memory, determine that the second MAC does not match the first MAC, and recalculate the second MAC with a correction operation, wherein the correction operation comprises an XOR operation based on the data retrieved from the system memory and a replacement value for a device of the system memory. Furthermore, the processor can decrypt the data stored in the system memory in response to detecting the recalculated second MAC matches the first MAC and transmit the decrypted data to cache thereby correcting memory errors.

Abstract: A memory subsystem includes link encryption for the system memory data bus. The memory controller can provide encryption for data at rest and link protection. The memory controller can optionally provide link encryption. Thus, the system can provide link protection for the data in transit. The memory module can include a link decryption engine that can decrypt link encryption if it is used, and performs a link integrity check with a link integrity tag associated with the link protection. The memory devices can then store the encrypted protected data and ECC data from the link decryption engine after link protection verification.

Abstract: A system and method are described for integrating a memory and storage hierarchy including a non-volatile memory tier within a computer system. In one embodiment, PCMS memory devices are used as one tier in the hierarchy, sometimes referred to as “far memory.” Higher performance memory devices such as DRAM placed in front of the far memory and are used to mask some of the performance limitations of the far memory. These higher performance memory devices are referred to as “near memory.” In one embodiment, the “near memory” is configured to operate in a plurality of different modes of operation including (but not limited to) a first mode in which the near memory operates as a memory cache for the far memory and a second mode in which the near memory is allocated a first address range of a system address space with the far memory being allocated a second address range of the system address space, wherein the first range and second range represent the entire system address space.

Abstract: According to various aspects, a memory system may include: a memory having a memory address space associated therewith to access the memory; a cache memory assigned to the memory; one or more processors configured to generate a dummy address space in addition to the memory address space, each address of the dummy address space being distinct from any address of the memory address space, and generate one or more invalid cache entries in the cache memory, the one or more invalid cache entries referencing one or more dummy addresses of the dummy address space.

Abstract: In one example a computer implemented method comprises encrypting data to be stored in a protected region of a memory using a message authentication code (MAC) having a first value determined using a first key during a first period of time, generating a replay integrity tree structure comprising security metadata for the data stored in the protected region of the memory using the first value of the MAC, and at the end of the first period of time, re-keying the MAC to have a second value determined using a second key at the end of the first period of time, decrypting the data stored in the protected region using the first value for the MAC, re-encrypting the data stored in the protected region using the second value for the MAC, and updating the replay integrity tree using the second value for the MAC. Other examples may be described.

Abstract: A two-level main memory in which both volatile memory and persistent memory are exposed to the operating system in a flat manner and data movement and management is performed in cache line granularity is provided. The operating system can allocate pages in the two-level main memory randomly across the first level main memory and the second level main memory in a memory-type agnostic manner, or, in a more intelligent manner by allocating predicted hot pages in first level main memory and predicted cold pages in second level main memory. The cache line granularity movement is performed in a “swap” manner, that is, a hot cache line in the second level main memory is swapped with a cold cache line in first level main memory because data is stored in either first level main memory or second level main memory not in both first level main memory and second level main memory.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus, system, and method to flush modified data from a first memory to a persistent second memory. A first memory controller coupled to the first memory includes at least one RAS controller to read a range of addresses in the first memory. In response to receiving a command from the power control unit, the at least one RAS controller is invoked to read data from at least one range of addresses specified for the RAS controller from the first memory. A second memory controller transfers data read from the first memory determined to be modified to the second memory. The first memory controller sends a signal to the power control unit to indicate that the modified data in the range of addresses specified for the RAS controller was flushed to the second memory in response to the RAS controller completing reading the range of addresses.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a processor includes a sparse access buffer having a plurality of entries each to store for a memory access instruction to a particular address, address information and count information; and a memory controller to issue read requests to a memory, the memory controller including a locality controller to receive a memory access instruction having a no-locality hint and override the no-locality hint based at least in part on the count information stored in an entry of the sparse access buffer. Other embodiments are described and claimed.