Title
SecNVM: An Efficient and Write-Friendly Metadata Crash Consistency Scheme for Secure NVM
Abstract
AbstractData security is an indispensable part of non-volatile memory (NVM) systems. However, implementing data security efficiently on NVM is challenging, since we have to guarantee the consistency of user data and the related security metadata. Existing consistency schemes ignore the recoverability of the SGX style integrity tree (SIT) and the access correlation between metadata blocks, thereby generating unnecessary NVM write traffic. In this article, we propose SecNVM, an efficient and write-friendly metadata crash consistency scheme for secure NVM. SecNVM utilizes the observation that for a lazily updated SIT, the lost tree nodes after a crash can be recovered by the corresponding child nodes in NVM. It reduces the SIT persistency overhead through a restrained write-back metadata cache and exploits the SIT inter-layer dependency for recovery. Next, leveraging the strong access correlation between the counter and DMAC, SecNVM improves the efficiency of security metadata access through a novel collaborative counter-DMAC scheme. In addition, it adopts a lightweight address tracker to reduce the cost of address tracking for fast recovery. Experiments show that compared to the state-of-the-art schemes, SecNVM improves the performance and decreases write traffic a lot, and achieves an acceptable recovery time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3488724
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Non-volatile memory, consistency, security, metadata
Journal
19
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1544-3566
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mengya Lei110.35
Fan Li210.35
Fang Wang37821.13
Dan Feng41845188.16
Xiaomin Zou510.35
Renzhi Xiao611.71