Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2021-12-03

Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ignore kmemleak scanning on CMA regions

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2021-11-28 00:09:32
Also in: linux-iommu, linux-mm, lkml

On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 10:47:11 +0800 Calvin Zhang [off-list ref] wrote:
Just like this:
commit 620951e27457 ("mm/cma: make kmemleak ignore CMA regions").

Add kmemleak_ignore_phys() for CMA created from of reserved node.
Could we please have a full, standalone changelog for this patch?

The 620951e27457 changelog says "Without this, the kernel crashes...". 
Does your patch also fix a crash?  If so under what circumstances and
should we backport this fix into -stable kernels?

Etcetera.
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