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Sanitizing kernel memory

Sanitizing kernel memory

Posted May 29, 2009 8:50 UTC (Fri) by anton (guest, #25547)
In reply to: Sanitizing kernel memory by nix
Parent article: Sanitizing kernel memory

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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