Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Herring <> | Date | Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:40:03 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1] Revert "mm: kmemleak: alloc gray object for reserved region with direct map" |
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 3:38 PM Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:02:54 -0800, Isaac J. Manjarres wrote: > > This reverts commit 972fa3a7c17c9d60212e32ecc0205dc585b1e769. > > > > Kmemleak operates by periodically scanning memory regions for pointers > > to allocated memory blocks to determine if they are leaked or not. > > However, reserved memory regions can be used for DMA transactions > > between a device and a CPU, and thus, wouldn't contain pointers to > > allocated memory blocks, making them inappropriate for kmemleak to > > scan. Thus, revert this commit. > > > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.17+ > > Cc: Calvin Zhang <calvinzhang.cool@gmail.com> > > Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres <isaacmanjarres@google.com> > > --- > > drivers/of/fdt.c | 6 +----- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) > > > > Applied, thanks!
Or not. Andrew already applied it.
Rob
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