Advanced HIP Workshop | Memory Management in HIP | Filling buffers with a known value

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Sometimes you might want to initialise a buffer with a value before using it. The functions hipMemset and hipMemsetAsync take care of the process of filling a HIP memory allocation. When using pitched memory, care must be taken to ensure that we calculate the actual size of the memory using the pitch.