Unfortunately for kernel developers, allocating memory in the kernel is not as simple as allocating memory in user space. A number of factors contribute to the complication, among them: The kernel is ...

A topic that I find particularly interesting, which is raised by many embedded software developers whom I meet, is dynamic memory allocation – grabbing chunks of memory as and when you need them. This ...

Microsoft claimed that there is a major security flaw in the memory allocation code of various devices, including healthcare gears, industrial control systems, and more. A particpant checks a circuit ...

Researchers from the Graz University of Technology have discovered a way to convert a limited heap vulnerability in the Linux kernel into a malicious memory writes capability to demonstrate novel ...

Alibaba Cloud has developed a new cluster management system called Eigen+ that achieved a 36% improvement in memory allocation efficiency while eliminating Out of Memory (OOM) errors in production ...

“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system’s unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...