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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2023
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed herein are a garbage collection method and apparatus. The garbage collection method includes when an area dynamically allocated through a malloc( ) function or a new operator of a standard C library is deallocated through a free( ) function or a delete operator, inserting the deallocated area into a quarantine list, recording a base address and an end address of each of areas inserted into the quarantine list in a CSR_quarantined_chunks register, finding a physical address of a memory page used by a processor and searching data in the memory page for a value included in a quarantined area of the CSR_quarantined_chunks register, when a value included in the quarantined area is not present, setting a state flag bit of the register to 0, and deleting an area which the state flag bit is 0 from the quarantine list, and inserting the area into a free list.