UMA questions
Max Laier
max at love2party.net
Wed Aug 11 08:45:26 PDT 2004
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 17:29, Bosko Milekic wrote:
> >2. What does the flag UMA_ZONE_ZINIT do exactly?
>
> It initializes zone-allocated objects to zero. This happens as objects
> are first allocated (i.e., slabs are allocated) and before placement
> into the slab cache. Unfortunately, I am not sure this works very well
> unless you also make sure to zero them as they are returned (dtor),
> which is a shitty model.
I guess the motivation behind UMA_ZONE_ZINIT is to prevent an information leak
from other parts of the system. i.e. I want memory that I can pass to users
or the net w/o having to fear that it holds my password or something.
Once the slab is in the cache, i.e. it belongs to me, I don't care anymore.
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