Re: Clearing of Ram?

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Frank Peters wrote: > My question is who cleared it the kernel or the malloc function in > glibc?? (i found some code in glibc but nothing in kernel) thx it's the second clear_user_highpage() in mm/memory.c that does the page clearing in the typical malloc()-ed memory case.

Clearing of Ram?

Hi all When I'm in user mode and malloc ram this portion of ram is cleared (zeroed) or? i think it is! My question is who cleared it the kernel or the malloc function in glibc?? (i found some code in glibc but nothing in kernel) thx mfg Frank Peters - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Clearing of Ram?

Hi all When I'm in user mode and malloc ram this portion of ram is cleared (zeroed) or? i think it is! My question is who cleared it the kernel or the malloc function in glibc?? (i found some code in glibc but nothing in kernel) thx mfg Frank Peters - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Clearing of Ram?

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Frank Peters wrote: My question is who cleared it the kernel or the malloc function in glibc?? (i found some code in glibc but nothing in kernel) thx it's the second clear_user_highpage() in mm/memory.c that does the page clearing in the typical malloc()-ed memory case.