Does anyone know if there is a way for mapping virtual addresses to areas with zeroes and replacing it with the memset to 0 on write access, so software could b

Does anyone know if there is a way for mapping virtual addresses to areas with zeroes and replacing it with the memset to 0 on write access, so software could be still efficient without calling calloc() instead of malloc()? (i.e. memset to 0 only for actually written zones)