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. It's only allocated and
cleared once you or glibc accesses it, with page granularity.
Ingo
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