VMALLOC_USER(9) Memory Management in Linux VMALLOC_USER(9)NAMEvmalloc_user - allocate zeroed virtually contiguous memory for
userspace
SYNOPSIS
void * vmalloc_user(unsigned long size);
ARGUMENTS
size
allocation size
DESCRIPTION
The resulting memory area is zeroed so it can be mapped to userspace
without leaking data.
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