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Sanitizing kernel memory

Sanitizing kernel memory

Posted May 28, 2009 22:06 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Sanitizing kernel memory by anton
Parent article: Sanitizing kernel memory

Would a DMA engine help here? A lot of modern chipsets have them
(sometimes they even work).


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Sanitizing kernel memory

Posted May 29, 2009 8:50 UTC (Fri) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link]

A DMA engine would "avoid the cache and CPU cost of clearing" (that's what I was thinking about when I wrote that), but the other costs would still be there.

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