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Re: [Xen-devel] Do we clear a page when it's allocated to a guest?

To: "Li, Xin B" <xin.b.li@xxxxxxxxx>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Do we clear a page when it's allocated to a guest?
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:23:42 +0000
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No. Pages are expected to be cleared by a guest when it frees them if it
cares about secrecy. Also Xen will clear pages that belong to a guest when a
guest dies (since the guest is no longer around to do it for itself). But a
guest cannot assume pages it allocates are zeroed.

 -- Keir

On 29/11/06 08:40, "Li, Xin B" <xin.b.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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