Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: alloc gray object for reserved region with direct map.
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2021-11-25 17:20:13
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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2021-11-25 17:20:13
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linux-mm, lkml
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 05:06:41PM +0800, Calvin Zhang wrote:
Reserved regions with direct mapping may contain references to other regions. CMA region with fixed location is reserved without creating kmemleak_object for it. So add them as gray kmemleak objects.
Do you get any kmemleak false positives without this patch? It would be good to include them in the commit message. Without seeing a false positive caused by this, I'm not convinced it is the right approach. You mentioned CMA but telling kmemleak about the whole CMA region is a pretty big hammer. I'd rather add individual kmemleak_alloc_*() calls in cma_alloc(). -- Catalin