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

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

From: Calvin Zhang <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-28 01:53:03
Also in: linux-iommu, linux-mm, lkml

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 04:07:18PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 10:47:11 +0800 Calvin Zhang [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
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?
Yes, I will add.
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?
No crash occurred. 620951e27457 avoids crashes caused by accessing
highmem and it was fixed later. Now kmemleak_alloc_phys() and
kmemleak_ignore_phys() skip highmem. This patch is based on the
point that CMA regions don't contain pointers to other kmemleak
objects, and ignores CMA regions from reserved memory as what
620951e27457 did.

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Thanks
Calvin
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