Dong Du

EPTI: efficient defence against meltdown attack for unpatched VMs

2018 · USENIX Annual Technical Conference

The Meltdown vulnerability, which exploits the inherent out-of-order execution in common processors like x86, ARM and PowerPC, has shown to break the fundamental isolation boundary between user and kernel space. This has stimulated a non-trivial …

The Gap Between Serverless Research and Real-world Systems

2023

With the emergence of the serverless computing paradigm in the cloud, researchers have explored many challenges of serverless systems and proposed solutions such as snapshot-based booting. However, we have noticed that some of these optimizations …