linux-kernel - Memory zeroed when made available to user process

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Message-ID: <71d13d76-4591-9206-ebbb-5e9599f10c7c@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:34:51 +0000
From:   Jefferson Carpenter <jeffersoncarpenter2@...il.com>
To:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Memory zeroed when made available to user process

Is there a way for a user process to mark memory as 'sensitive' or 
'non-sensitive' when it is allocated?  That could allow it not to have 
to be zeroed before being allocated to another process.